City Moment – A Colony of Birds, Lodhi Gardens Moments by The Delhi Walla - May 15, 2015May 15, 20155 The remarkable Delhi instant. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] One warm sky-blue evening The Delhi Walla saw a tree in Lodhi Gardens that was colonised by hundreds of birds. The birds were silent. Their kingdom seemed in a state of peacetime stillness. Just then a solitary young man walked in from another direction. He happened to look up at the tree. It was indeed a fantastical sight. The branches were bare, but the birds had covered those branches like the season’s new leaves. The young man stood frozen. He stirred, after a while. He bent down and picked up something from the grass. He then stood up, looked up at the tree and, with great force, threw that something towards it. It was a stone. Almost instantly all the birds flew away. The tree became bare. It was a sad moment. Now you see, now you don’t 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Share this: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Like this:Like Loading… Related
Amazing photos. I have seen this many times in Lodi Gardens, of course, but never in this exact sequence. Lovely 🙂 Loading...
“Once on a time from all the Circles seven 1 Between the stedfast Earth and rolling Heaven The Birds, of all Note, Plumage, and Degree, That float in Air, and roost upon the Tree; And they that from the Waters snatch their Meat, And they that scour the Desert with long Feet; Birds of all Natures, known or not to Man, Flock’d from all Quarters into full Divan, On no less solemn business than to find Or choose, a Sultan Khalif of their kind…” – Fariduddin Attar Neyshapuri’s Manteq at-Tayr Loading...