Button, remember Pippa, our snail friend, who came to live with us for sometime and kept running away again and again to meet up with his friend, Raja, the stray? Raja’s no more. Maybe he’s met up with his other friends Shabby, Puchku and Dushtu somewhere up there! Where the twinkling stars are!
Newspapers reported that a just-born baby was thrown inside a dustbin near Kalyan and left to die! Which living species would commit such a heinous act if not “human beings!”
It poured yesterday: It was miraculous that she survived the downpour.
There’s a jamun tree in the compound where we live. It towers over quite a few vehicles parked underneath and looks over them like a mother! Thrice a year, she also delivers babies, in the form of jamuns which, to the annoyance of one of my daughters in particular, are spewed out in bulk over her vehicle thus staining it badly. She is almost on the verge of having delivered all her babies till the next time round.
Here she is replete in her glory.
Button, wherever you may be, look at the size of this stork! It dwarfs even the woman in the foreground! Will there soon be dinosaur-sized birds flying overhead?
Button, had you been around, you would have found it somewhat difficult to digest this bit of news: Narendra Modi, our new Prime Minister, has been advised, as part of a management idea, to place soft toys such as teddy bears to get bureaucrats to act more socially and bring down corruption in the country!
Button, the koel’s call is turning more and more plaintive as it pleads with the rain Gods to bring rain and relieve its parched throat of dryness. Remember me telling you about the koel’s call?