Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Connecting through bizare incidents

In a cool and bright summer morning, I was enjoying my morning walk. The street had very few people but lot of parked cars that gave a feeling of chillness with the moisture deposit on them. It was a business trip, as usual, that trip demanded 96 hours of work per week. It was somewhere in London suburb. I watched a pigeon flying fast towards a shop, dashed in a glass window and fell down. It was just two or three seconds. The pigeon was dead. Another lonely stranger on the street watched the same. We both could not contain our feelings caused by this and almost instantaneously started, "see, what happend?".

It was an evening walk in Sai Baba colony's Bharathy park, a posh area in Coimbatore. It has very big beautiful bungalows. A well fed, but stray dog was flexing its muscles. A cyclist selling tit bits was standing about 12 feet away. He must have been a friend of that dog. He took something like biscuit from his merchandise and showed it to the dog. It was still lazily flexing its muscles. He called the dog couple of times. It decided to walk finally. It moved slowly and smelled what he showed and turned its face slightly. The cyclist had to say, "take it, take it, why are you not taking it" - almost in the tone of a father asking a sleepy kid to eat something kid usually enjoys. The dog finally decided to take it and walked away - lazily, with that biscuit in its mouth. And then, when the cyclist disappeared, the dog put that biscuit on the ground. It felt like the dog did not want to hurt his friend!! A passer by lady and myself saw this incident and we could not contain our amusement. What a "bandha" this dog shows!? - This was exactly we both expressed at the same time.

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