SoS - Save our Sparrows
It was beautiful with those tiny golden wings. Soaring so high, relishing the freedom of the sky. I sat on my porch step watching the flowers in my garden sway. Slowly it came down to the ground hopping around. It perched on a plant's branch, turning its head in different directions, looking for food probably. I went inside my kitchen and came back with a handful of rice grains. It flew away seeing me getting close to it. Strewing the grains carefully over the land I sat inside my home closely observing the little bird. After a while it returned to my garden and picked up all the grains clean in a minute. It chirped happily, could be 'thank you' in its language. Such a cheerful creature. :-D Remember this bird? It is this bird which made friends with humans easily than any other of its kind. Possibly you might have seen this bird a long time ago or read about it in your school books or heard your grand parents talk about how their avian buddies played with them when they...