Whilst there is global call
for peaceful living, there has been crisis and more than a million migrants and refugees crossed
into Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as countries struggled to cope with the
influx, and creating division in the EU over how best to deal with resettling
people. The vast majority arrived by sea but some migrants have made their way
over land, principally via Turkey and Albania.
The trouble is because the migrants are changing the cultural practices
and have exploded violently causing trouble to the locals.
At the largest migrant camp
in Paris, just outside the Porte de La Chapelle metro station, as is
elsewhere, hundreds of migrants live in
tents. Many of them blame Europe for not giving them documentation or free
housing. The Porte de Le Chapelle migrant camp is the largest outdoor makeshift
camp in the French capital and is home to several hundred migrants, most of
whom come from African countries like Sudan, Eritrea, and Nigeria.
The European migrant
crisis, or the European refugee crisis,
began in 2015 when rising numbers of people arrived illegally in the European
Union (EU), travelling across the Mediterranean Sea or overland through Southeast
Europe. These people included not only asylum seekers, but also encompassed
various others, such as economic migrants,and
some no. of hostile agents
including "Islamic State militants".
The unauthorized foreign migrants came mostly from Muslim-majority
countries of regions south and east of Europe; by religious affiliation, the
majority of entrants were Muslim (usually Sunni Muslim), with a small component
of non-Muslim minorities (including Yazidis, Assyrians, Mandeans, etc.).
‘Bahubali
~ the conclusion’ is rocking and is affable by every standards for the ordinary
cine goer. How the hero Bahubali is
loved by his subjects and how he strains to keep the subjects of Mahismati
happy are the neural values. Amarendra
falls in love with Devasena a princess
of the Kuntala kingdom (7.5 yojanas in the North from Mahishmati) and the
sister of the king of Kuntala. That in
the process of proxy war to capture the kingdom, the smaller kingdom gets
crushed and wiped away are the sad tales that man’s lust for power teaches
us. Every kingdom be it Kuntala or
Mahismati passes through various phases – run and ruined by some greedy power
hungry people or attacked by dacoits like Pindaris. ~
Mahendra Bahubali whose life starts with Rajamata saving him, running
away from evil forces, gets floated on water, saved and brought up by simple
people, reenters the same kingdom of Mahismati is narrated beautifully .. More on the movie in a later post
Miles away, the
mayor of a remote mountain village in Italy is offering to pay €2,000 (Rs.1.42
lakhs approx) to anyone who moves there,
in an attempt to save it from becoming a ghost town. Those who take up
residence in Bormida, which sits 420 metres above sea level in the north-west
Liguria region and is home to 394 people, will pay as little as €50 a month in
rent.
MailOnline reports
on the enticing initiative is Mayor
Daniele Galliano’s way of breathing life into a village whose population has
dwindled in recent decades as young people leave to find work in the closest
big city of Savona or beyond. The finer details of the cash offer still needed
to be ironed out and approved by the local council, Galliano wrote on his
Facebook page. But if all goes ahead, from next year anyone who transfers their
residence to Bormida and either rents or buys a property there will be gifted
€2,000.
And under the low
rent scheme, which should be in place within the next two months, a small
property will cost just €50 a month while a more spacious one will be no more
than €120. “We’re still working out the
plan, but anyone is welcome to come and live here,” said a local councillor,
who asked not to be named. “We’re a small community but very welcoming. We’re
high up in a mountain area but also not far from the sea – it’s a healthy
lifestyle, the air is very clean.” Galliano’s Facebook post was met with a
flurry of responses from potential new inhabitants, with some saying they would
renounce the cash gift in return for a job in the town.
But what is life
like in Bormida? The manager of Oddone Giuseppe, one of the town’s four
restaurants, said: “There is nothing much to do here. But life is so simple and
natural, we have forests, goats, the church, and plenty of good food. Life
would definitely be free of stress.” A
report last year by Legambiente, an Italian environmental association, found
that 2,500 villages across the country risked being abandoned owing to
depopulation.
In January the
culture ministry named 2017 the “year of the village” as part of an attempt to
promote tourism in places at risk of becoming deserted.
Interesting !!
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
11th May
2017.
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