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🌿 Sastry On Today: When Nature Becomes the Unhappy Spouse

The mountains of Uttarakhand weep again.

Landslides, cloudbursts, families displaced, roads snapped like brittle threads.

And if you widen the map, the story repeats: wildfires in one corner, floods in another, heatwaves cooking cities, oceans swallowing coasts.

The scientists give it a name — extreme weather.

But perhaps, it is something more intimate: the sound of a marriage in crisis.

For centuries, humanity has been wedded to Nature.

A grand wedding it was — we danced in her forests, drank from her rivers, built temples to her winds and rains.

But slowly, like a neglectful partner, we began to take her for granted. We dug too deep, burned too much, polluted too often.

She warned us with gentle hints — a warmer summer here, an unseasonal rain there. We didn’t listen.

Now, the quarrel has become loud.

The spouse we ignored has raised her voice — landslides, hurricanes, infernos.

Not out of malice, but as a reminder: “You cannot love me only in poetry and prayer, and abuse me in practice.”

This is not apocalypse, my friends.

This is counselling.

Nature is telling us the terms of the marriage are non-negotiable: respect, restraint, and reciprocity.

Without them, no relationship survives — not even one as ancient as this.

So the question is not whether Nature will survive.

She always does.

The question is whether we, her errant partner, will learn to live not as masters, but as companions.

And as Sastry might say with a dry chuckle:

“When you marry someone as powerful as Nature, you had better keep your vows. Or be ready for the furniture to start flying.”