Musings

Monday, August 21, 2006

A Show by 5 Crows!

Last morning as I sat lazily on my bed gazing out of the balcony door, I noticed this
extremely cute activity that was going on down, on the other side road.

Four crows were sitting on a compound wall.One crow had flown up and was perched on the lamp post in front of the wall.In a moment it nose dived or rather, 'beak dived' and when it was
just a foot above the ground it started to flap its wings and flew back to the compound
wall.
As soon as it returned, the crow at the other end of the queue flew up and repeated the same
antic.
I got up slowly and moved to the balcony, taking in every bit of this highly amusing show .

Once all the crows were done with their turn they dispersed together into the bushes behind
them.

I was awestruck by the organised manner in which they conducted themselves.

As I looked around, I saw quite a number of people walking or driving but they were all
oblivious to the event that I had just witnessed.

Well...they have definitely missed out on this one!

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Guess its time to redefine the word 'Inhuman' ....

From lovable pets to being used as professional healers our domesticated animals have indeed come a long way.

Aleast that's what I thought till I came to know of the atrocities committed on these poor animals behind the scenes in the pretext of training them .

The appointed healers of retarded children have to go through a gruelling training session where they are beaten , harassed and basically tortured in every sense.

And guess what they are taught!

They are taught to stay unperturbed and bear all the suffering quietly !!

So the next time a retarded child gets violent on its healer it could do so till it calms down because the poor animal will bear it all quietly and still be friendly and lovable to its assailant !

'Being inhuman' is fast becoming a human trait.

The time has come to redefine 'inhumanness' as a virtue.