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Where-do-birds-go-to-die

A Blogpost by Naresh Sadhwani

Theory-on-the-dying-pattern-of-birds

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एक रहस्य

पक्षी मरताना कुठे जातात?

आजपर्यंत कधी एका पक्ष्याला पण झाडाखाली मरुन पडलाय किंवा अजुन कुठे आमच्या Colonyच्या परिसरात मृतावस्थेत पडलाय असे बघीतले नाही . किंबहुना जगात कुठेही असा मृत पक्षी मिळालाय असे आढळत नाही.

हां.. एखाद्या मांजरीने मारुन निष्काळजी पणे सोडुन दिलेले अवशेष किंवा एखाद्या अपघातात चिरडलेले पक्षी बर्याच वेळा दिसले असतिल पण नैसर्गीक मेलेला पक्षी आजपर्यत तरी कुठेच आढळत नाही.

मग पक्षी काय अमर असतात का ? की त्यांना नैसर्गिक मरण यैतच नाही? ह्या प्रश्नांची उत्तरे गुगल वर पण शोधायचा प्रयत्न केला. पण गुगलने पण काही तर्कशुध्द उत्तर दिले नाही.

अनेक पक्षी निरीक्षणांच्या साईट्स, पक्षीतज्ञांचे लेख सर्व काही शोधुन झाले पण कुठेही काही ठोस उत्तर मिळाले नाही.

आणि मग ह्या प्रयत्नातच एक रंजक लेख वाचायला मिळाला “Dying pattern of Birds”

ह्या लेखात *काॅर्क बिशप ल्युसी* यांनी एक थोडी वादग्रस्त ठरु शकणारी थेअरी मांडलीय, लेखाची सुरवातच पक्षी मरण्यासाठी कुठे जातात अशी करुन बिशप ल्युसि ने सर्वांनाच असे आव्हान दिलेय की कुणीही जगात नैसर्गिक मृत झालेल्या पक्षी पुरावा म्हणुन दाखवावा. आजपर्यंत तरी त्याचे हे आव्हान कुणीही स्वीकारलेले नाही.

लेखकाने मरण्याच्या कारणांची स्पष्ट वर्गवारी दिलीय, एकीकडे नैसर्गीक कारण दूसरीकडे शिकार, अपघात, मूद्दाम पक्षीहत्या अशी वेगळी कारणे. परंतु मजेची गोष्ट अशी की आजपर्यत तरी नैसर्गिक कारणाने मृत असा एकही पक्षी कुणी पुरावा म्हणून सादर करु शकले नाहीय,पक्षी शास्त्रज्ञसुध्दा ह्या बाबतीत ठोस सांगु शकत नाही. दरवर्षी पक्ष्यांची गणना करुन ते सरासरी पक्ष्यांचा मृत्युदर ठरवतात.

ह्या बिशप ल्युसींचा मधमाश्यांच्या जीवनक्रमावरचे संशोधन जगमान्य आहे, ते सांगतात मधमाशा मृत्यु समीप आला की खूप उंच वरच्या उच्च दबावाच्या हवेत स्वतःला घेउन जातात आणि तिथे दबावामुळे त्यांचे अक्षरशः नैसर्गिक विघटन होते आणि त्या नष्ट होउन जातात. यावरुन बिशप म्हणतात की पक्ष्यांना सुध्दा मधमाशाप्रमाणे अंतःप्रेरणेच एक इंद्रिय असावे जे त्यांना जाणीव करुन देते की आता शेवटचा क्षण आला आहे किंवा जीवनकाल संपत आलाय. आणि ही जाणीव होताच पक्षी आकाशात स्वःतला उंच उंच घेउन जातात जो पर्यत त्यांचे विघटन होत नाही तो पर्यत ते वरती वरतीच चढत जातात. बिशप ची ही थेअरी मला तरी स्वीकारार्ह वाटते कारण दुसरे कुठलेच लाॅजिकल स्पष्टीकरण सध्या तरी नाही.

अजूनपर्यंत तरी ह्या थेअरीला शास्त्रज्ञांकडून कुठलेही खंडन झालेले नाही. ह्या एका गोष्टीवरुन आपण एक गोष्ट निश्चितच म्हणू शकतो की पक्षी मानवापेक्षा उत्कांतीच्या पुढच्या पायरीवर आहेत की त्यांना ही जाणीव होउ शकते की आपला अंत्यसमय आलाय जे माणसालाअजुनही अज्ञात आहे. पक्षी निश्चीत ठरवू शकतो की त्याने खूप जगुन झालेय,बघून झालेय आणि तो आनंदाने कसलीही खंत चिंता न बाळगता उंच उडून शरीराचे विघटन करुन टाकतो.न वयानुसार येणार्या व्याधी, न सोसायचे दुःख. आपल्या पेक्षा ते पुढेच आहेत कुठेही जाण्याचे, विहाराचे स्वातंत्र्य, कुठलीही सीमा नाही , पासपोर्ट नाही, पिल्ले मोठी झाली की त्यांच्यापासुन सहजगत्या स्वतःला सोडवुन परत कधीही न भेटणे सहज स्विकरणारी. स्वतःचा मृत्यू निश्चित करणारी…

मोक्ष !!!

अजुन काय वेगळा असतो !!!!!!

Isn't this the Nature's own arrangement to become-One (Yog) with the almighty God: The LEAN Management in so-called professional lingo!

Lean Concepts At Siddheshwar Temple

Siddheshwar temple in Solapur! Beautiful!

Observe the lean principles in use there...

Clean! Serene!... SEISO Spirituality!
Walkway marked!.. SEITON Orderliness!

Foot-wash in a continuous smooth flow!
It avoids backtracking and eliminates waste of water by reducing consumption!
Foot-wash is mistake-proof (Pokayoke) because this is the only entry point to the temple!

Colorful! Old building preserved!

Temple surrounded by beautiful lake adjacent to fort!
Lovely well-decorated boat waiting (to take you for a nice-ride)!

Thick Greenway all around the fort!
Beautiful garden at the entry!
Both show ruler's concern to the environment!

Wrestling yard just outside the fort!

More pictures on this link: Click here!

Soon... Waste-to-Eat ! Sea-to-Drink !!

Do you fill glass 'full' as in picture-1 or fill 'half' as in picture-2 while drinking water?

Some fill it 'half' as in-2 in spite of their need being of 'full' glass. Is it a good practice?

Those who may argue this practice as leading to 'wasted efforts' of having to 'fill it again' may not be wrong. But having filled 'full' glass, 'what-if' suddenly their need changes to 'half' glass for whatever reason?

To find answer... Click here to read more

Read a few relevant blogposts hereunder:

Rise-n-Fall in the Rain-Fall 

Take Habits For A Ride 
Can-changing-thoughts-change-a-nation
Do you exercise your choice meaningfully

How To Make A Difference

WOW Work-Culture: By Telling or Selling

Poverty-to-Power of Poetry

Bird that just chirped

Wish To Be Planet-Friendly?: Save ! 

Soon-waste-to-eat, Sea-to-drink !

Don't Save Water on Holi-day

Do You Celebrate Mean-or-Green

Not-Soon, Says Monsoon

Rise-n-Fall in the Rain-Fall

Need basic civic sense to use technology

Read this news "Vendals rob Bandra of skywalk escalator" (DNA 27.04.13) that reported a 'typically Mumbai like' trait resulting in damaging an escalator beyond repair and its metal parts pilfered. Costing rupees 55 lakhs in 2010, it saw a few footfalls.

Claiming that people don't want to use a given facility, a senior official of the installing authority MMRDA reportedly said: "It's better to have a staircase instead... Clearly, we lack basic civic sense."

Usually automation-technology is warranted where there is need to eliminate 3-d i.e. dirty-danger-difficult activities from a typical daily repetitive-work. This is practised as a 3-K concept (kitanai-kiken-kitsui respectively) of Kaizen originated in Japan.

Also through training and awareness, by default the target-users of automation are supposed to be upgraded in their knowledge-skill-&-attitude (KSA) to make use of it as-desired alongwith effectivity of the security if needed and posted there to ensure it's proper-use.

Before undertaking such projects, I am sure MMRDA might have spent lakhs in making a techno-economic feasibility report for infrastructure across mega-city like Mumbai to ease traffic jams, comprising projections of usage of it's equipment such as this escalator. Such a  report if it is adequate is supposed to cover strategies to tackle corresponding KSA issues as well.

In absence of validating adequacy &/or compliance of reports on which such projects are based and executed, blaming that people "lack basic civic sense" is like passing on the buck.

About automation such as escalators at public places in particular (barring in malls,  private places, etc. where adherence, user-readiness, etc. is much better), knowing non-readiness of the Indian users in terms of their KSA, should we not make such investments with enhanced care?

Very often such technological automation oriented projects in particular get 'declared' in a haste under the influence of post-tour-enthusiasm to convert 'Shanghai-out-of-Mumbai' and 'Singapore-out-of-Solapur' after so-called study-tours abroad.

In order to avoid resultant waste in terms of material and intangible-time (lost in projects that get delayed endlessly forward and lost in re-winding those backward when non-functional) and opportunity-lost-costs, many such projects in-pipeline need revisit to validate their need itself.

May be some are necessary but some other projects may get head-lined (like "vendals rob Bandra of skywalk escalator") in newspaper as "skywalks: a boon to joggers as 'sky-tracks'" and "escalators: a boon to children as 'hi-tech-slides'".

If one were to remember fate of Girgaum-Chowpatty escalator, perhaps the first ever at a public place in India, time will tell who (in their own but expensive language) 'lacks sense' unless a knowledgeable and objective revisit is undertaken in order to eliminate emotionality if any in decisions about such projects in-pipeline.

Be Shame-less Or Water-less

Does symbol in picture-A look familiar?

Now-a-days the symbol is seen very often: almost on every packaging. As is self-explanatory it is to do with Reduce-Reuse-Recycle, in abbreviated terms, 3R-practices. Some may call this as being MISER by 'Reducing' consumption of resources by Reuse-Rework-Recycle techniques. Many may claim to "know-this-already".

By default many innovative Indians have devised their own 3R-practices. Some for instance use-n-throw the inside-contents away but recycle the outside-poly-bag. Is it to do only with packaging?

Do they extend such 3R to every other opportunity possible?

Some do. Some claim to do. Some don't do. For each one of them, there are many more if they get a little more aware & seriously interested to be a leaner consumer.

For instance, look at possibilities of recycling instead of using tap water for floor cleaning.
Or say look at practices like in picture-B that represents a typical kitchen platform.

Conventionally, we three at home would need three sets (each containing a plate, a bowl and a spoon) while dining.

The need is to eat, not to 'show'. Eating can easily be done by 3R practice on utensils in picture-B itself.
Then why touch fresh sets on rack (picture-C). As an alternative, why not to reuse the utensils as those seen in picture-B itself. 

Some may be doing it by-chance claiming to "know-this-already".
Why not do it by-design in every domain.

In a paper making factory lot of water and pulp is used in upstream processes. An inefficient paper-mill uses 300-400 ton-water per ton-paper! Can you imagine how much water as well as pulp can be recovered from downstream processes. The recovered water and pulp can be recycled thus saving consumption of both in the upstream processes.

Why not be a 'shameless' 3-R-brat even if it's a party-mat*.

Isn't bad 'publicity' if any worth the 'sake-of-mother-earth'.

Those who do it in every domain without fear of being ashamed or fear of so-called 'bad publicity' are the real 'learned-ones'. They are many steps ahead of so-called "know-this-already" kind of 'knowledgeable' people because they 'do' it at every opportunity what the knowledgeable 'know'.

Although seems like that of a 'fool'; the path of  'learned-one' counting drops-over-drops becoming a pool (of water-saved) is surely cool.

(*Some of us are lucky to notice some wrong practices: one plate used for starters; another for variety-1 in the main course; and third one for variety-2; and so on.)

Read a few relevant blogposts hereunder:

Rise-n-Fall in the Rain-Fall 

Take Habits For A Ride 
Can-changing-thoughts-change-a-nation
Do you exercise your choice meaningfully

How To Make A Difference

WOW Work-Culture: By Telling or Selling

Poverty-to-Power of Poetry

Bird that just chirped

Wish To Be Planet-Friendly?: Save ! 

Soon-waste-to-eat, Sea-to-drink !

Don't Save Water on Holi-day

Do You Celebrate Mean-or-Green

Not-Soon, Says Monsoon

Rise-n-Fall in the Rain-Fall

Should one care for value?

If more benefits at lesser costs is the definition of value, which product in the picture offers value?

For comparison, one can use various parameters such as follows.

1. Basic function offered by both (the eyedrops in left and right bottle) is same. 

2. Quantity in both is 3 mili i.e. same.
3. Left one is bulkier and heavier occupying more space than right one.
4. Left one consumes more plastic. This parameter determines the 'cost of disposal' (i.e. cost to environment).
5. Left costs rs. 275. The right one costs rs. 327.

Before coming across above alternatives, an imported brand that costed rs. 675 offering same quality and quantity was obviously offering lesser value. All the three products were used over a period of 18 months.

Result of all was found same.

Branded product costing rs. 675 was the one that was pushed by the ophthalmologist. Who should get more value in a typical transaction like this: the consumer, the middleman, the seller or the planet?

There can be more parameters in above list that a consumer and stakeholder may like to add to while making a purchase decision. But the fact remains that SHE (safety, health, environment) of both that of the consumer and planet should come first while taking a decision. 

Also read a few relevant blogposts hereunder: 

Should one care for value?  http://stayleanmakeplanetgreen.blogspot.com/2013/02/should-one-care-for-value.html 

Less-With-More Because More-Is-Sore http://stayleanmakeplanetgreen.blogspot.com/2013/02/less-with-more-and-more-gets-sore.html 

Who Comes First: Consumer Or Customer ? http://care-is-cure.blogspot.com/2014/10/who-comes-first-consumer-or-customer.html 
Customer or Custo-Mer?  http://care-is-cure.blogspot.com/2013/03/customer-or-custo-mer.html
Experienced A Delightful Payment ! http://care-is-cure.blogspot.com/2014/04/experienced-delightful-payment.html
An Experience of Heart-and-Soul http://care-is-cure.blogspot.com/2014/03/an-experience-of-heart-and-soul.html
Do you keep curing your brand? http://care-is-cure.blogspot.com/2013/01/do-you-keep-your-brand.html 
A customer gets what s/he deserves: Shoddy Quality! http://care-is-cure.blogspot.in/2013/04/a-customer-gets-what-she-deserves.html 
Listen to iceberg of VOC to acquire customers http://care-is-cure.blogspot.in/2013/05/listen-to-iceberg-of-voc-to-acquire.html
Do You Force Customers To Quit http://care-is-cure.blogspot.com/2014/08/do-you-force-customers-to-quit.html

Make checklists your friends

For some reason I wanted to close savings account operated by three joint holders; me,  my wife and my son based 500 kilometers away from us......