I would not have written this piece but for this cute little bushy tailed sweetie who comes everyday to visit us. Mom has been feeding her for sometime and I have got used to her presence now. I am talking about a squirrel who has become like a family member now. Her favourite area is the pot where we have a flowering plant standing tall amongst the other lot.
She’s (I presume its a female) very shy and timid and shoots off at my slightest move. I have captured some pictures of her with my NIKON 5200. The excitement, while doing so was the same as shooting pictures of wild animals in the jungle. Where would one find the joy of watching animals in this concrete jungles?
I went over to Wikipedia to read more about the squirrels & I discovered, to my surprise, that it belongs to the rodent family. It can also be a potential carrier of the plague virus too. For the time being, my mom seems to be content in giving the squirrel her share of peanut shells, which she gladly chews.
On other fronts, I read Dipanita Sharma (model & actress who is herself an Assamese) saying that Indians have no respect for the north easterners & we should consider whether Mumbai infact is really safe for women or not. She adds that Indians (read rest of India) discriminates them on the basis of their mongoloid features. She was referring to the dastardly act of a guy who attacked 2 Manipuri women with a chopper at Gateway of India recently. One of them succumbed to her injuries while the other was critically wounded. A point to be noted here was that none of the bystanders came to her rescue for 15 minutes, which is a typical Mumbaikar attitude towards looking at human calamities. Hit and run cases and bodies lying astray on the roads are very common.
Whereas I have no mercy for the guy who did this and also for the bystanders who just stood there, I firmly consider Mumbai to be the safest metro city in India for several reasons. To pass such a judgement on a stray incident of a madman attacking a woman, is cruel and unjust.
lucky bhooshan, u got a pet squirrel…another reason for me to drop by ur place know…first the wacom tabby and now this….the list grows.
Hoping I get a pet mynah some day…more like a wild one that would be kind enough to give me the privilege of offering it shelter and food whenever it wanted
ahha..you can stil drop by Elroy..although I am more or less certain that the squirrel would miss the opportunity to meet you :-)
Anyways, its nice to mention it as my ‘pet squirrel’ and I hope she stays back too.