Not that the Marina needed 'beautification' in the manner determined by the Corporation of Chennai. All it needed - and continues to need - is the deployment of public amenities in large quantities, to make sure that there is no litter clogging up the beach. Of course, controlling the indiscriminate spread of makeshift stalls and other commercial ventures on the beach would also go a long way in the beautification.
But, until people realize that there is a beauty in letting things be, machines like these will keep ploughing the sand this way and that to create the artifice; they forget what John Keats said,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that's all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"*
*John Keats, 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', lines 49-50
3 comments:
Effective photo to back up your commentary...yes, it our "leaders" often find ways to avoid the obvious.
@ Jacob: Some of them seem to be 'perpetual employment' schemes!
If we are able to keep it clean for 6 months at a stretch that will be something. But I always thought that in a tropical country like ours we cannot wish away the dust factor.
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