The nullahs are again full to capacity with all the garbage that has not been lifted - what if it rains like before? All roads are broken, the sidewalks perishing and slowly eroding away, there are more motorcycles that ply on the sidewalks than the pedestrians. If Tipu Sultan was alive today and lived in Karachi, what would he do for us by living like a lion for one day? It hadn’t even rained and the more than 70 per cent of the city had blacked out - courtesy K-Electric or good governance, I don’t know. That is why in today’s world there are less and less tigers and of course very few Tipu Sultans, if at all. Too late because they can now have their trees back but not the lost biodiversity - the plants and the animals. By the time people become more human and more reasonable and realise that they need to have a government and need to grow the trees back because they were the ones to cut them down in the first place - it is too late. In fact, anarchy eats away the government or any sense of it that is there and not trees but entire forests are cut down.

In such a state looking at a tree one forgets to see the forest.

Tipu Sultan could be a Tipu Sultan in a 17 th or 18 th century world but could he be the same Tipu Sultan in today’s world?Īnarchy is absence of control, absence of government, a huge state of disorder in which everybody is for himself - a state of war of all against all. But there is this another Arabic quote that goes like this, ‘better a hundred years of tyranny than one day of anarchy’. Most of us have grown up listening to this quote. ‘To live like a lion for a day is far better than to live for a hundred years like a jackal.’ This is a quote attributed to Tipu Sultan, the tiger and ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore.

The writer is Dean Social Sciences at Garrison University Lahore and tweets M Ali Ehsan

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