Mangalore is a lovely place
Posted in General on August 2nd, 2010 by RaviI have nothing to prove my theory, and it might sound stupid, but though people say that the western ghats formed when the Indian Tectonic Plate broke away from the super continent called Gondawana, I still think that it is entirely a different bit of land that came and joined with the Indian plate, or it was formed by some volcanic acivity. I don’t know when this happened, or what really happened for that matter, and neither do the scientists. Scientists work on evidence. They have found human remains that are about 10 million years ago, and thats what they have used to state that the Homo Sapiens are 10 million years old. I don’t have time to research all that or prove it, but it is just my theory.
I don’t like the way the so called Science works on predicting with evidence. How do you know that the evidence is authentic enough that you can blindly come to conclusions with whatever evidence you have got? How do you know that the Humans are not over 10 Million years old, and when I ask that question, how would asking me to bring evidence to state my point make it true that the humans are not over 10 million years of age?
Europe was a war torn place about 65 years ago, but if you go there today, unless you go to the war memorials or to Hitler’s Bunkers on a guided tour, would you be able to tell that it was a war zone 65 years ago? If no one had recorded the war and if our kids didn’t have it in their history books, the whole event would have been completely forgotten by now.
Well, I do have my theories about the Origins of Humans, their migration pattern to populate the entire planet, and that the human species came about over 150 million years ago, and not just 10 million years ago, and that humans were there when the big Dinos were playing around. On a funnier note, I would even say that humans brought about the end fo the dinosaurs, and it was no big comet or crater dust that did it. Call it my fantasies, but I will be writing a post about this pretty soon, when I find time.
So, coming back to the Western Ghats, they say that it was a high cliff when it broke away from Madagascar, and that the cliff eroded to form the land that is on the western side of the mountains now. Idiots. The whole of Kerala and a good part of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa lie on the western side of the Western Ghats. To start with, I’d like to compare the soil. I don’t know how good the soil in Karnataka is on the eastern side, but I think I know Tamil Nadu and Kerala well enough to compare.
The soil in Tamil Nadu is rotten in most of the places. Nothing grows except some plant that Kamarajar imported from South America. The only places where farming is possible in Tamil Nadu are close to the rivers that drain water from the Western Ghats into the Bay of Bengal. But when you look at Kerala, the land is filled with highly fertile soil, and even with the slightest shower of rain, tiny new plants and grass shoot up from the ground almost through the entire state in every square inch of the grass. This is true through the entire range of the Western Ghats and the land that lies west of it.
The air is filled with Oxygen with so many plants everywhere. You feel it. Your brain starts working better when you breathe that unadulterated air rich in oxygen to breathe, and I guess they haven’t bothered to electrify the Konkan Tracks for a reason. Maybe Mr. Sreedharan wanted to provide the plants on the range with Carbon to photosynthesize.
So, coming back to my theory, the land west side of the western ghats was never part of the Indian plate at all. If it was a part of the Deccan Plateau, no one says anything about why isn’t the Deccan Plateau never as fertile as the western side of the mountains, except perhaps in places where rivers originating in the Western Ghats flow. The real india was only as fertile as Botswana and Zimbabwe are today. Fertile red soil comes only from Volcanoes. So about 100 Million years ago, when the Indian plate was moving north to collide against the Asian plate to give birth to the Himalayan ranges, I believe something funny happened underwater, and there was a volcano that gave birth to the mountain ranges, or, a piece of land like the New Zealand came and collided against the Indian plate, with very little land mass, it just became a part of the Indian plate and it was never looked at as a different plate by the scientists today.