The mostly invisible heavy price that we pay in the name of development and creature comforts makes us oblivious to simple things that silently disappear without replacement.
How many of us are aware that sparrows are gradually becoming extinct from most of our urban/semi urban areas?
It has been established by experts that the unrestricted expansion of telecommunication networks for mobile phones has destructively affected the reproductive cycle of the innocent sparrow – a bird that we took for granted around us, may be even a decade ago.
This morning drove to Bangalore airport to see off Tina for her Mumbai flight. As we were walking back to the car park – spotted a solitary sparrow within the public foyer area of the massive steel and glass facade and a whole range of emotions welled up!!
The bird kept moving and chirping within touching distance (wish had a camera handy) displaying its normal characteristics of ‘no fear’ in human surroundings. Remained glued at the spot till it flew off to another area. Isn't this a sad and unfortunate reflection on human beings?
We have systematically managed to alter the simple bird’s DNA in our quest to remain connected on a 24/7 basis BUT have got disconnected from nature’s scheme of things. The tragedy of this experience is the fact that the bird has not altered its character and has remained in its original format to remind us of our not so distant past.
May be we need to slow down and divert our attention to respect the original balance in nature to avoid the disasters towards which we seem to be moving and a solitary bird’s appearance is the wake up call to care for our Earth.
How many of us are aware that sparrows are gradually becoming extinct from most of our urban/semi urban areas?
It has been established by experts that the unrestricted expansion of telecommunication networks for mobile phones has destructively affected the reproductive cycle of the innocent sparrow – a bird that we took for granted around us, may be even a decade ago.
This morning drove to Bangalore airport to see off Tina for her Mumbai flight. As we were walking back to the car park – spotted a solitary sparrow within the public foyer area of the massive steel and glass facade and a whole range of emotions welled up!!
The bird kept moving and chirping within touching distance (wish had a camera handy) displaying its normal characteristics of ‘no fear’ in human surroundings. Remained glued at the spot till it flew off to another area. Isn't this a sad and unfortunate reflection on human beings?
We have systematically managed to alter the simple bird’s DNA in our quest to remain connected on a 24/7 basis BUT have got disconnected from nature’s scheme of things. The tragedy of this experience is the fact that the bird has not altered its character and has remained in its original format to remind us of our not so distant past.
May be we need to slow down and divert our attention to respect the original balance in nature to avoid the disasters towards which we seem to be moving and a solitary bird’s appearance is the wake up call to care for our Earth.
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I always see a couple of sparrows inside BIAL too!
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