Wounded Plants by Jagadish Chandra Bose
Wounded Plants by Jagadish Chandra Bose About the Essay This essay is an excerpt from Jagadish Chandra's lecture delivered at the Bose Institute on Feb 07, 1919. It was published in Anand Bazar Patrika on Feb 10, 1919. Jagadish Chandra Bose draws our attention to the fact that our reaction to human tragedy and that of the trees and plants is altogether different. We are not sympathetic to the plants because they are mute and they cannot cry out their pain. Bose shows that plants also have feelings of happiness and sadness. They also experience birth, growth, and death. The essay sensitizes all of us to develop in us sympathetic attitude towards plants and nature in general. In the first paragraph, the author catches our attention to the damage caused to the vegetative world by wars. He quotes the example of World War I that spread over the whole of Western Europe. The beautiful fields of France and the clear blue sky were under a pall of battle smoke. A dense...