Posted by: Chamkebaaj July 13, 2007
Motherland Revisited
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It’s story of a gardener, a passionate gardener. From dawn till dusk he would work in his self owned garden. His motto was not to sell plants and flowers but to sell honey from the bees which were coming to his garden because of flowers. There were lots of flowers and lots of bees, honey, and butterflies. The garden environment lured everyone. Neighbors would envy on the gardener. One day suddenly he died. His heirs took the responsibility to run the garden and did the honey business. But they did not have any passion towards maintaining it. They were always searching some shortcut ways to make money. Though income from honey was sufficient, they needed extra to fulfill their extras…They started selling flowers especially to their neighbors. One day a neighbor came with a proposal to purchase the whole plant at a higher price. It was the thing the heirs had always wanted. They never knew what conspiracy the neighbors were weaving behind the proposal. The plants were also sold. The heirs became rich. But the bees were facing problem, they were not finding flowers to make honey. The heirs never bothered to look for the bees and honey; moreover, they were interested to sell the whole land if any good proposal would come. The bees did not see future in the garden and started leaving, moved to the place where there were flowers and started making honey there. As the days went by, the garden turned into barren land with no plants, no flowers, no honey, and no bees. A signboard saying LAND ON SALE was standing which was continuously mocking the soul of the gardener. Some months later it was heard that the heirs had a fight for selling the land. It was even heard that one of them was killed during the fight.
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