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Editorial, "Save and Educate the Girl Child," in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 15 October 2102, Volume 8, Part 2, No. 19 issue
SAVE
AND EDUCATE THE GIRL CHILD!
This is our loud message in marking of the International
Day of the Girl Child on 11 October [2012], which all humanity lovers have to
unreservedly act on. It is unfortunate and tragic that, just two days before
this Day, some fanatic fundamentalists in unseemly rage selectively called out
and critically shot Malala Yusufzai [‘Malala’ means ‘grief-stricken’ in Pashto] just a 14 years kid, but already world renowned child
education campaigner of the beautiful but now terrific Swat Valley of Pakistan,
only for the ‘crime’ of propagating the value and need of education to all girl
children and daring to do that in the teeth of Taliban threats. She is now
struggling for life with 50% chances of survival in a UK Hospital and
we ardently wish her speedy recovery and fruitful long life. Not only in
Pakistan, become a rogue state drawn into the vortex of terrorism and anarchy,
but even in our own ‘largest
democracy of the world’ we can witness unashamed and most cruel
atrocities on the girl child and Talibanism,
whether Muslim/Hindu, religious/regional, can in no way be condoned but has to
be combated militantly for the very survival of humanity. It is really
lamentable that “the hand that rocks the cradle, the procreator, the mother of tomorrow;
a woman shapes the destiny of civilization. Such is the tragic irony of fate,
that a beautiful creation such as the girl child is today one of the gravest
concerns facing humanity” (http://www.savegirlchild.org/).
It is irrefutable truth that only the mother
in general spends and cares for the children for most of the time in any family
and if girls are not protected, educated and brought up in decent circumstances
how can the family progress to any prosperity. There cannot be any second
thought on female education which in our country has never been in desideratum
since ages. We find woman philosophers like a Gargi, a Maitreyi in ancient
times and mathematics wizards like Leelavati and then our own Telugu poetess
Molla who wrote Ramayana in exquisite style in the medieval times. It cannot be
gainsaid that where the women are not educated and independent there the
society treads but in deep darkness and encounters only pitfalls but no
ascendancy to any success. We wish that every person with any element of
humanity propagate this stark truth and work for the welfare and education of
the girl child in all earnest. §§§
Editorial, "Protect and promote Biodiversity" in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 30 September 2012, Vol. 8, Part 2, No. 18 issue
PROTECT
& PROMOTE BIODIVERSITY
at all costs, was the key message of the Earth Summit 1992 held at Rio
de Janeiro at which our former Premier late Sri PV
Narasimha Rao was a distinguished participant. The Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD) adopted therein begins with the Preamble stating, “The Contracting Parties, Conscious of the intrinsic value of biological diversity and of
the ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational
and aesthetic values of biological diversity and its components; // Conscious
also of the importance of biological diversity for evolution and for
maintaining life sustaining systems of the biosphere, Affirming that the
conservation of biological diversity is a common concern of humankind, Reaffirming
that States have sovereign rights over their own biological resources; …also
that States are responsible for conserving their biological diversity and
for using their biological resources in a sustainable manner, Concerned that
biological diversity is being significantly reduced by certain human
activities…” and calls for strict conservation and
promotion of biodiversity. There are about 2 million living species actually
identified by the bio-scientists so far though their guess may point to a total
of 5-30 million on our planet. Biodiversity is the strategic defence of the
Nature which, if upset, would have calamitous consequences for our, as well for
other, bio-species. The main causes for the decline in biodiversity are habitat loss, invasive alien species,
over-exploitation of natural resources and pollution and Humans are said to be
the culprits to be blamed for each of these factors. The images above show some bird species that became
extinct due to human depredations but thousands more of the living species are
on the road to extinction due to mindless destruction of forests, reckless
mining and other industrial activities leading to severe pollution etc. In our
own country tigers and lions are on the road to extinction despite some recent
serious efforts to conserve their species. Truly as Friedrich Nietzsche remarked
long back, “Man
is the cruelest animal…” Let us ardently hope that the forthcoming international
Biodiversity Conference at Hyderabad
in the first weeks of this October would seriously deliberate to find effective ways and
means to conserve and promote biodiversity for the general well being and
prosperity of all bio-species, including our homo sapiens, inhabiting Mother
Earth. §§§
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
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