Way back in early 90s, me as a kid of around 7 or 8, I used to frequent Bangalore with my grand parents and parents, I used to spot a lot of Sparrows in and around Sankey tank, Tata Farm, and generally in and around the area of UAS.
For me as a kid Sparrows were a special companion. They came in droves twittering freely, accepting feed from us fearlessly whenever I went around the aforementioned places with my elder cousins. When we gleefully dived at them in our attempt to catch them, they would fly away in a flash-only to return challengingly chirpin and fly past our eye brows menacingly yet very gently........
With the population of the city galloping, with 5000 people being added daily to the existing ones, parks and spacious houses have simply vanished without trace (thanks to the real-estate mafia) and huge sky scrappers being built instead. The verdent greenery and the serene atmosphere which was the hallmark of our Bengaluru, is covered with green house gases and dust.
In the mindless race between development (at what cost!!) and nature, the former has won (an illusion of course)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bangalore or as it is now called as Bengaluru (just for the sake of a few kannadigas like us!) is no more a home for these little winged charming ordinary yet extraordinary beauties..... They do not get the love and the care of the people they want to live with. They have flown away to a far off place unknown to mankind.......Perhaps they will never return!!
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