Aaloopuri

I stepped out into my balcony today, I hadn't been there in a while. Perhaps the cause was my annual hibernation, still I somehow gathered the courage, motivated by my love for the heavenly view of night lights. Soon as I stepped out, the world seemed rather huge to me, just like the time I first stepped out post 3 months of COVID lockdown. After limiting my world to the fourteen feet walls of my room, it looks seemingly enormous without a roof over. The western disturbances have been quite harsh this time. After a heavy shower at dawn and a whole day of drizzling, the weather was pleasant and accompanied by chilly winds. I pulled my hoodie over, plugged in my earphones, played "alleviation" on loop and I was ready to be teleported into a dimension of thorough peace. Leaning relaxingly on the railing, I dropped my chin in my hands and gazed at the night lights until they blurred in my eyes. With a couple of sufi songs playing on loop and their melodious and soothing rhyth

 Pioneering world peace. When the great noble prize laureate ‘Gurudeva’ Rabindranath Tagore exclaims “where the mind is without fear, and world is not fragmented by boundaries” [1] he emphasizes on the liberty that is innate in the human soul. Likewise, the prolific poet James Kirkup imparts the values of universal brotherhood when he says “no men are foreign, no countries strange” [2] . So why do we even need enemy lines drawn, which segregate us in all aspects? Why do we have to dispute upon imaginary lines and who gave us the right to claim a piece of land as ours?   Considering that we are just another species to set foot on Earth we have just as much right over any piece of land as any other species. But humans are not just another species as of now. We have been responsible for creating these lines by bloodshed but also globalization, we have ruined our planet to the point of no return but we are also constantly working towards replenishing it. Moreover, it becomes essentia