Territoriality is a passe'...?

Historians believe with civilisation fades territoriality and psychologists say that the world is small place. But do we humans hold good to this? If yes, the need for that personal space is altogether a different thing?!!

In an era where Bollywood and cricket make India, together rather the world united(Of course kolaveri is added to the list recently)...are we together? Together and alone as the big SEVEN or together and alone as the 28+7 which span few kilometres in the world map, single and ready to mingle but *conditions apply.

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If you  think how can a small geographical boundary create a mental territory in us, think again, we have come down from joint family to a nuclear family to a mere I? Did the atlas and map limit our thoughts to just these? Isn’t the everyday pledge at school supposed to teach us something else? Guess it should be modified to make us say” The world is my home; all humans are my kith and kin...” I guess we are more familiar to racial wars, ethnic wars and the honorary killings than the generations of barbaric uncivilised human beings who lived in caves and the dumb human beings who built thinnais and shelters for the unknown guests. Today thinnais and aangans are seen in museums where we have a model Indian home, and we have moved to live in modular boxed houses with a Wi-Fi connection.

Thanks to YouTube and Facebook where we can like (yes LIKE) the posts about human discrimination and share them on our walls and build walls around us. The” like” is supposed to mean our participation and support for the cause explains by facebook philic friend. It is a safe territory, completely virtual. (The latest territory that you can lock with passwords and that you don’t your need scents and marks anymore)

Man is a social animal begins all our Civics classes at school, (Social-networking animals says a half of my mind) who is an integral part of the society, state, country, world and universe. In the quest to conquer the world and embrace globalisation, why did we forget we belong to the same species that did have a SIXTH sense and believed in the respect and dignity of fella human beings? We keep reminders in our mobile phones about -THE FAMILY TIME (which is  a maximum of a few minutes every week). We talk about need of a personal space for everybody in a nuclear family and but are friends and neighbours with them online, how ironical?

Territories are no more geographical boundaries; they are becoming the emotional and psychological boundaries that are made by us, for us and of us but include only me (strictly singular). It is like, I am my world and the world is mine sans every other being. The present state of hummmm.... man being , cross my heart and hope to die.