(Dramatically,…) Oh! This perspiration! And still it’s better in this air conditioned room. But just step out in the afternoon and look above… the cruel and angry ball of fire is bubbling in ruthless ire. – Scorching heat, sunburns, and this sultry summer – Ohh! Life’s hell under the sun, --- Mr. toastmaster, fellow toastmasters and guests, if we are thinking in this way, we are, for sure, taking a lopsided view of the mighty Helios – the heroic sun god. Have you ever imagined what would have happened to us in the absence of sun?
(Pause)…Well to even answer the question which I have just asked, you must need to mull over it, and for that you need your brain, but for the brain to be working you must be alive, i.e. you must have life, but life thrives on earth only because there is something called the sun.
We human beings are so proud about ourselves, as we are the mightiest and the most brilliant of the species living on earth, but do you know? - even we‘ve have been developed over a long time, slowly and steadily, from just a single celled organism. And that cell was created as an effect of complex chemical reactions. And for those reactions to take place there was a need of energy. And who catered that? – the sun.
Life on earth – well that’s something which the sun has done. But what about the earth itself? Geo scientists say that even earth is a small part of sun that got detached from the solar star many many years ago and cooled down over time to take the present form. So had there been no sun, there won’t have been something called earth!
There are other neighbours – Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune – they are the bigger planets – many many times bigger than the mother earth, still life never thrived on them, because, sun has never been so kind to them.
But he was kind to earth – whenever she needed him. He was kind to her because he loved her! And it was he who always came forward to rescue her whenever she was in a peril. Like, there was a time which historians call the “Ice Age” – there was thick crust of hard frost all over her body – things got frozen on earth – and survival became a difficult thing. And then there was the amorous look of the sober sun that acted as the ‘Ice Breaker’ – broke the crust of earth – removed her pale-gloomy-white widow-like dress, and dressed her up again in a new attire – the lush green foliage.
Plants came first, and the animals followed, and then we came to rule rampant. And we flourished on earth; we did so as we got the food and drink timely. Plants made the food for us, but to make that food, what did they feed themselves? It’s the light – the warmth of the sun rays. But that’s not all, Sun did cast his rays on oceans too, and vapours rose up in the sky, rumbled in the form of cloud, and showered back on earth - And we quenched our thirst.
For household activities, industrial operations, or even for day to day conveyance, we use so much of fuels and substantially fossil fuels – we use the energy that are pent up in coal / petroleum / wood – and it’s the sun who along with his last longing lingering look of the evening casts the soothing sunbeams, that are raw form of energy, which in the process of energy transformation, are stored in what we call, the fuel that drives our civilisation.
But these days, the environmentalists and the green people are much more concerned about the puzzling problem of rapid energy depletion. And they worry about the amount of fossil fuel still left in the planet earth for human beings to live on. Well, that’s indeed a problem and we must try to tame other forms of nature’s power which is available in abundance… And we must promote the use of renewable and non-conventional energy resources. And when we talk about a non-conventional and plentiful source of energy what can be better than the solar power? So, just look up and get the idea. Eventually, only a few days back Bengal witnessed the setting up of a 2MW solar power station in Asansol area. So things have started to move the solar way. And it’s a good indication that the human beings are being more intelligent and efficient in terms of usage of energy.
So we see that the story of sun is an epical one. The sun created the earth, reared her up, and it provided a solution whenever she faced a problem. So to sing the saga of the soothing sun that enamoured us for millions of years, mere few minutes is not enough, and this talk can go on and on, but to conclude, I must reiterate that this beautiful earth is a magical wonder – and the magician sun spells its golden rays – which in my imagination, are the sparkling magic wands. And upon earth, life begins with sun. Life gets food, life gets fuel, life gets the go to move on – for there’s sun. We play, we talk, we sing in joy – Anything’s possible, just under the sun.
(Pause)…Well to even answer the question which I have just asked, you must need to mull over it, and for that you need your brain, but for the brain to be working you must be alive, i.e. you must have life, but life thrives on earth only because there is something called the sun.
We human beings are so proud about ourselves, as we are the mightiest and the most brilliant of the species living on earth, but do you know? - even we‘ve have been developed over a long time, slowly and steadily, from just a single celled organism. And that cell was created as an effect of complex chemical reactions. And for those reactions to take place there was a need of energy. And who catered that? – the sun.
Life on earth – well that’s something which the sun has done. But what about the earth itself? Geo scientists say that even earth is a small part of sun that got detached from the solar star many many years ago and cooled down over time to take the present form. So had there been no sun, there won’t have been something called earth!
There are other neighbours – Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune – they are the bigger planets – many many times bigger than the mother earth, still life never thrived on them, because, sun has never been so kind to them.
But he was kind to earth – whenever she needed him. He was kind to her because he loved her! And it was he who always came forward to rescue her whenever she was in a peril. Like, there was a time which historians call the “Ice Age” – there was thick crust of hard frost all over her body – things got frozen on earth – and survival became a difficult thing. And then there was the amorous look of the sober sun that acted as the ‘Ice Breaker’ – broke the crust of earth – removed her pale-gloomy-white widow-like dress, and dressed her up again in a new attire – the lush green foliage.
Plants came first, and the animals followed, and then we came to rule rampant. And we flourished on earth; we did so as we got the food and drink timely. Plants made the food for us, but to make that food, what did they feed themselves? It’s the light – the warmth of the sun rays. But that’s not all, Sun did cast his rays on oceans too, and vapours rose up in the sky, rumbled in the form of cloud, and showered back on earth - And we quenched our thirst.
For household activities, industrial operations, or even for day to day conveyance, we use so much of fuels and substantially fossil fuels – we use the energy that are pent up in coal / petroleum / wood – and it’s the sun who along with his last longing lingering look of the evening casts the soothing sunbeams, that are raw form of energy, which in the process of energy transformation, are stored in what we call, the fuel that drives our civilisation.
But these days, the environmentalists and the green people are much more concerned about the puzzling problem of rapid energy depletion. And they worry about the amount of fossil fuel still left in the planet earth for human beings to live on. Well, that’s indeed a problem and we must try to tame other forms of nature’s power which is available in abundance… And we must promote the use of renewable and non-conventional energy resources. And when we talk about a non-conventional and plentiful source of energy what can be better than the solar power? So, just look up and get the idea. Eventually, only a few days back Bengal witnessed the setting up of a 2MW solar power station in Asansol area. So things have started to move the solar way. And it’s a good indication that the human beings are being more intelligent and efficient in terms of usage of energy.
So we see that the story of sun is an epical one. The sun created the earth, reared her up, and it provided a solution whenever she faced a problem. So to sing the saga of the soothing sun that enamoured us for millions of years, mere few minutes is not enough, and this talk can go on and on, but to conclude, I must reiterate that this beautiful earth is a magical wonder – and the magician sun spells its golden rays – which in my imagination, are the sparkling magic wands. And upon earth, life begins with sun. Life gets food, life gets fuel, life gets the go to move on – for there’s sun. We play, we talk, we sing in joy – Anything’s possible, just under the sun.
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