Fewer Stories, told better- Frowning Tiger and Roaring Man

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Good day All,

Greetings for a Happy and Prosperous Tiger year this lunar calendar.


Photo courtesy Dr.Banerjee-Kanhakisli-M.P


For those who are new to the stars, constellation and calculations, a quick mention, 

the wise ancient humans looked and charted their past, 

present and future according to the sun and the moon.

The westerner's looked at the bright sun and had 12 zodiac signs, simplifying it as per months and dates.

The easterners's may be, liked to work at night, so looked at the pleasant moon 

and sketched 12 animals, as man also shares some characteristics of those animals. 

So this lunar new year is allotted to the Tiger, oh its a Water tiger.

The moment we hear the word Tiger, something grand, striped graceful yet fearsome comes to mind.

Better is to read few lines:

 

       Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 

       In the forests of the night; 

      What immortal hand or eye, 

     Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 

 

     In what distant deeps or skies. 

      Burnt the fire of thine eyes? 

       On what wings dare he aspire? 

        What the hand, dare seize the fire




William Blake wrote this iconic poem sometime around 1794, 
along his celebrated published work-Volume songs of experience. 
He drew parallel lines in his poem about the Tyger, 
his ferocity, his roar and his intelligence and wrote 
about the innocent lamb, in his other poem; 

The Lamb, which was published in the volume songs of innocence. 


The reason of drawing two parallels during 

the 18th century was to show that nature has created 

two opposites to coexists and be each other’s support function. 

During this time the World was entering into a chaos and creatives across 

had the moment to raise their voices as usual some got heard and few not.

 

The thought of creating different central themes and using it as a metaphor was to drive the poetic influence that nature creates, sustains and dissolves as in the circle of life. 

But it is nature that chooses; as soon as man realized that control was in nature's hand,

 he started to calculate, scheme and wok industriously to take the control in his hands 

and the era of digitization came into existence. 

The louder the man roared on his success, for his digital innovations, 

the physical world payed that extra tax through deforestation.


Now in current circumstances, 

the Tiger inspite of having the Save the tiger project is very fast losing 

its voice (roar) and its existence is in grave danger. 

The forest and its natural habitat both are depleting and fast. 

Words like sustainability, climate change, fall short 

when we look at certain things as only as campaigns 

to make some media noise and then forget about it.


photo sourced google images


If we are to take a look at the Save Tiger project, 

tiger conservation initiative was sketched in 1971 

and got launched in 1973 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi took active role

 in saving the depleting numbers due to poaching for Royal Bengal tigers in India. 

At least India has taken this project seriously 

and so far, out of 3,900 tigers global estimate, 2,967 tigers 

are saved and found in Indian National Reserve Forrests. 


Till date, out of 9 subspecies of Tigers, 

we have lost 3 sub species and the remaining 6 are also on the verge of extinction.

Few of the subspecies are Malayan Tigers, Sumatra Tigers, Siberian Tigers.

Just as in digital devices you have locations and the classy locations have better privilege, 

Tigers roam territorially and each species have different characteristics, infact the Tiger stripes act as finger prints for individual tigers. But to mark and categorize, becomes difficult as tigers living in plains are easily found and conserved where as those tigers found in tropical mountainous regions have difficulties and are easy prey in the hands of the smart human poachers.


 

This lunar new year celebrates the animal sign- water tiger. 

Therefore at least this year the Man can make plausible efforts 

to return the roar back to the extinct tiger.

 

 

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