{"id":81,"date":"2016-04-19T06:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T06:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upluscollective.wordpress.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2016-04-19T06:31:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T06:31:14","slug":"oxy-moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Oxy-Moron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I am going to write about now is a actually a paradoxical situation, but I never leave an opportunity to use a bad pun!<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" src=\"https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/emoji\/twemoji\/svg\/1f609.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude09\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Morons \u2013 that\u2019s what they actually are.<\/p>\n<p>With \u2018they\u2019, I mean people in authority, people who think they have a right to decide who gets what resources, and impact the lives of millions, and people who actually do, but are\u00a0not responsible enough!<\/p>\n<p>With what we do, we\u00a0have to visit these tiny villages, sometimes located in the most mesmerizing locations! This little world of people has\u00a0a world of it\u2019s\u00a0own problems. Here they are struggling to live. To live at least till the next moment, next day. When you visit them, you realize the whole futility of trying to find life somewhere else when we can\u2019t even respect most of them here. Now. At this moment. Alive.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u00a0I set out to go to a tiny place, near Kasara.<\/p>\n<p>At the first glance, it was a\u00a0breath-taking view! Wow. What more could one ask for! I mean people pay crazy amounts to go live in a place like this \u2013 be it only for 5 days! I was standing at one of hills surrounding Upper Vaitarna dam, and overlooking a village on another hill-top. What beauty!<\/p>\n<p>But there was no road to get there. So we climbed down &#8220;our&#8221; hill, and climbed up the adjacent one!\u00a0No connect, no roads was\u00a0the just the beginning of their miseries. It did not hit me so hard till we actually reached the village, and oh my, what we\u00a0saw was what I used to think was just a sure-shot formula for a successful movie! People had no water to drink. TO DRINK. Forget spa, Jacuzzi, have a bath, or even cook! Let us not even speak about water therapies! They did not have water to drink, when they were surrounded by a dam, that gives water about 200 km away! I cannot emphasize on this more!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-81 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/?attachment_id=27'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/revslider\/main-home\/slider-img-3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/revslider\/main-home\/slider-img-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/revslider\/main-home\/slider-img-3-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/revslider\/main-home\/slider-img-3-1000x998.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/revslider\/main-home\/slider-img-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/revslider\/main-home\/slider-img-3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/?attachment_id=29'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/dsc_01951-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-29\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-29'>\n\t\t\t\tHarsh reality\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/?attachment_id=30'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/dsc_01971-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-30\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-30'>\n\t\t\t\tClose to water. Yet so far!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-square\"><\/div>\n<p>Government is trolling them. In their\u00a0face!<\/p>\n<p>Can you see the little rocky trench? Can you see a little wet portion above the 3 buckets in the trench? So what actually is happening is, there a few drops of water coming out of those rocks \u2013 and this is \u201cpaani aaya\u201d situation for them! This is how they fill water. Drop-by-drop. And can you see the queue of vessels? By the time even one fills up, we would have wasted 10 of those \u2013 just putting things in perspective!<\/p>\n<p>We have heard this a lot. I mean I won\u2019t say I haven\u2019t seen millions of pictures (award-wining) or videos where people are struggling to fill their bucket. It doesn\u2019t hit you so hard, till you don\u2019t see it. For yourself. It was the saddest, the most helpless moment of my life for me. Very clich\u00e9d, \u00a0but this was like a \u201cSwades-moment\u201d of my life.<\/p>\n<p>I know for a reader like you, this will yet again be another story, heard from someone else-you will empathize with it, may be even agitate a little, but it will not make you think twice before the hot water shower bath! Still, on my end it is attempt to show the reality. And our so-very-efficient government!<\/p>\n<p>You know what was worse? I came home and told about this to a few people, and the reaction I get is \u2013 \u201cyeh toh kuch bhi nahi hai, waha toh aisa hai, yahaan toh waisa hai, aur woh toh sabse bura hai!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seriously?! Signing off before\u00a0I\u00a0can\u2019t stop myself from adding another bad pun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I am going to write about now is a actually a paradoxical situation, but I never leave an opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,133,147,150,159,171,173,186,198,202,214,217,290,300],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-change","tag-community","tag-development","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-government","tag-india","tag-life","tag-maharashtra","tag-nashik","tag-neighbourhood","tag-urban-design","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upluscollective.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}