The Chatia’s Nest and the Landlady
In the morning Geeta was working in her kitchen in a small
town of India.
She stumbled upon a straw dropped on the cook-top; for
instance, she realizes that, it dropped from the exhaust fan-vent. However, she
ignored by thinking that might be due to air blow.
After a month or so, she and her husband Suresh were having coffee
at the dining adjacent to the kitchen. Both of them heard a nice and cute twittering
sound coming from the kitchen. Both of them thought that, it might be due to the
sweet winter season; until Geeta realised that, there was a nest in the exhaust
fan vent and conveyed the same to her husband.
Since then, she never put on the fan for the safety of the
birds.
Every morning they continue to enjoy the sounds of new-born Chatias
(Ashy Crowned Sparrow Lark) over their sips of coffee cups. During
Diwali vacation both of them gone to their hometown.
Enjoying after 4-5 holidays, they came back and continued
their normal day to day activities. On the very next day morning, there were no
twittering around the dining. This was first noticed by Suresh, thereafter they
both rushed to the kitchen to find out what happened?
Neither there were straws nor the nest. Which had little distressed
the couple. Having that in their minds, both of them were busy in their day’s
schedule.
Later during the day time, while Suresh had been to the
office, the landlady Mili came to her and updated and told that, “As the Chatias
were dropping straws and defecating in the area, I have
cleaned the nest, now you can blow the fan”. Geeta had got no words to put-forth,
however she defended that, there was no issue & point to clean the nest.
In the evening Geeta had conveyed the discussions held with Suresh. She also asked that, “how come she had cleaned the nest in which there
were 2-3 new-born birds”. On her curious question he replied with a reasonable answer,
“The lady who can kill 4 fetus consecutively because they were girls, for her
new-born Chatias were nothing”. The discussion stops there.
Comments
Thanks a lot for your valuable comment and citing your personal experience.
I do agree on your feedback with reference to save the girl child campaign and PC&PNDT Act thereto.
// Om Sai Ram //
Thanks for your valuable comments.
You rightly mentioned about the fast changing human behavior.