Nicely written Indeed a cycle of change. You should write more

They Say that Sikkim usd to cover an area that was almost three times the size what it is now.

If you’re looking at that area – say from something similar to how you’d view a place with Google Earth – and visualise a garden – A garden just being prepared. That is, there’d be earth all around and probably a border of green. Let us assume that nature, on its own is prearing a garden of flowers.

Keep looking at that plot. After a sufficient amount of time, sprouts and buds etc start to appear and shortly the garden would be full of – say yellow flowers.

There are not many of these yellow flowers. they are spread around sparsely in that plot. They are sturdy and can survive with whatever is available from the garden. So they grow and spread, but slowly, without adversely affecting the environs that they grow in.

Some TIME passe, bright crimson flowers appear in the north west of the garden. With the passage of time, the Northwestern areas of the Garden retain vestiges of the bright crimson flowers. Whereas the rest of the garden is still a massive expanse of green with the yellw flowers still being evident all over the garden but with splotches of yellow dominating some areas, some areas where the crimson stands out and quite a few places both thr yellow and bright crimson intermingle to produce a cordinated hue of reddish yellow and/or yellowish red.

The garden now appears set to be a garden of different combinations of bright crimson and yellow. But wait there appears to be a darker version of flowers appearing on the south east – No those are a new group of flowers – dark brown in colour.

On their own the dark brown flowers seem to be overtaking the yellow flowers in the south east. Soon the dark brown flowers are spreading further north and west. But after some time the dark brown flowers intermingle with the yellow and bright crimson flowers and slowly fade, but not before adding to the mosaic that was already there.

So now the garden has yellow flowers, yellow tinged flowers, bright crimson flowers, crimson tinged yellow flowers, and brown tinged Yellow and crimson flowers.

Is the garden going to stay that way. No. From the south several different coloured flowers seem to appear. Darker strained purples, mauves, and combination of many other colours. These different coloured flowers start appearing in many of the areas – and actually add a spectalular effect. Is that a danger sign.

Around the same time strange new flowers also appear from the western and south western end of the garden – brightly coloured and very similar looking flowers but having much stronger shades of white, red, orange, purple, and many other shades.

With the passage of time (again) this new combination of many colours, shades, hues and tinges, appear to be what was best for the garden. But the original yellow flowers are far and few between, the bright crimson are only found in patches, and the combination of these two flowers grow in the shadow of the bigger plants from the south.

The brightly coloured flowers from the west, with their many hues, strains, tinges and shade have now taken over most of the areas where once only yellow and bright crimson flowers, swayed in the wind.

The beautiful yellow flowers may soon be extinct. The bright crimson flowers are shining again, but it is the shine preluding anihilation.
The different flowers carrying the shades and combination of the yellow and bright crimson flowers may survive if they take on the different characteristics of the new new flowers that have taken ove the garden.

That is the way of nature. A cycle of change, movement and time.

Mingma King

Happy diwali to you too! Pateka parkayera kehi chaina yahan. I’m scared of loud crackers. Planning to light diyas instead.

I couldnt see anything from where I was sitting near the Gymnasium side. Most of the action was on the Fisheries side ma, isnt it?

Anta, football final heryo?