The posterity-What are we leaving behind?

Recently I happened to see a documentary ‘My name is Palar’ produced by one Mr. R.R.Srinivasan at Alliance Francaise, Chennai.

Palar starts from Karnataka, flows via Andhra Pradesh enters Tamilnad and reaches Bay of Bengal near Cathurangapattinam .

The documentary was elaborately dealing with the atrocity the river is facing at the hands of greedy business community, bureaucrats, politicians etc.


The effluent from the tanneries in Ambur, Ranipet and Vellore are freely let out into the river causing severe health hazards to population around who consume the water.



Once people were using natural herbs like ‘Kadukkai’ and others as cleaning agents to treat the animal skin. The effluent had rich herbal value and the agriculturists used to vie with each other to collect the same and use in their fields to get high quality yield.
Now chromium and nickel are being used in the tanneries and hence it becomes difficult to standardize the effluent water as the ill effects cannot be removed.

The other major atrocity committed on the river is the quarrying of sand 10 folds above the stipulated optimum level by greedy businessmen and the same is sent to nearby states. It is highly unfortunate that the local population is used in this service specially women and children. They resort to assist this as they have no other avocation and means of earning because agriculture has totally failed and the soil has become uncultivable. If the sand mining continues at this rate the Palar belt is likely to become fully dried up and no recharge will be possible even during rainy season.
Now we turn to our Nxgen. We have very dynamic, hardworking, talented and enthusiastic Nxgen today. They are tech savvy and advanced in all walks of life. They use their brains and valuable trainings to serve other countries, make them prosperous and are termed very cost effective. But they don’t realize that the earth on which they stand is becoming parched and cracked.

The middle aged population stands silent spectators knowing well that what they leave to the posterity is barrenness, disease prone water resources and scarcity of quality vegetation. They also realize that if our rivers, lakes, wells and other water resources are preserved well, there my not be water scarcity.

India the largest democracy in the world is facing another election now. It is time the youth awake and strive hard to retain our resources intact. Let them bring home foreign exchange and boost up financial prosperity, but let not the motherland lose all the natural resources slowly because they do not show interest in preserving them thereby denying the benefits to the posterity. Let them take a consolidated effort so that the Newnxgen will be thankful to them.

I call upon the Nxgen and Newnxgen to have only one identity i.e., ‘I am an Indian’.


P.S. Photos from the documentary screened.