Sun and wind

I walk to a village every evening about four kms. in the mountains from my home. It is a tribal village. Population is around 400 people. I am doing this as an exercise for more than two years, almost every day.

It is clean and pure mountain air.  Sun shines in full glow.  It rains heavily.  Winter is very cold and winter wind is speedy, dry and rough.  Lots of trees are there all around. The village jungles have lots of birds, snakes, rabbits and wild bores.    

Since corona has tormented the world, I have been watching these village people closely. They do not wear facemasks, they do not use hand sanitizers (they cannot afford to). As I have observed carefully, they are not at all panicked due to fear of infection.  They just know that there is something called corona.

Small boys and girls freely roam around, go to the jungle and hill slopes with their parents for collecting fire wood or for farming works.  Zoom farming is still practised in the mountain slopes. There are lots of cows and buffalos in the village, which keep the villagers busy all through the day.  Cows and buffalos graze grass in the mountain slopes. They are not fed with artificial fodders.

Ladies go to the water of the Valvan reservoir for washing clothes or vessels.  Young boys play cricket using bamboo or wooden sticks.  And they shout a lot.     

A few of the villagers come down to Lonavla to do petty jobs or labour work in hotels and resorts. Some of them wear masks in working places.

Since one year corona has been infecting people. World is in deep pain. People are suffering badly and dying in big number.

I wonder why not a single person of this village (also such other villages) is NOT infected by corona? 

I do not say that people should be careless in these difficult times. That is not the point.

You may or may not like my point of view, but you cannot deny the validity of what I say. Our cities are too much congested. There are too many people put up in too small place. There is too much pollution due to burning of fossil fuel (may be solar and wind energy can reduce or even eliminate this rotten thing) and excess use of plastic.

Rather than building smart cities or villages (this is a joke!), resources maybe utilized to raise up integrated human life wherein people live in lovely lap of the Mother Nature.  There is no better alternative to bright sunlight, pure air and sky (long exposure to free space or Akasha plays an extremely valuable role for health of the body, mind, emotion and sentiment) for healthy mind and body.