Man and a sparrow named “chioo”: 5

Man and a sparrow named “chioo”: 5

There was the man and the “chioo”.

Suddenly she disappeared. No “bhurrrrrr-bhurrrrrr” around, no “chioo-chioo” in the courtyard. No straws scattered in the rooms, in fact there is no place in the rooms to build a nest. On the walls, there are even no frames of photos of grandpas and grandmas and pictures of gods and goddesses.

There is no chioo to show to the baby while telling him the old, now irrelevant, story of “chioo and kaoo”.

She was a part of his life and she disappeared as if sliced off from his existence.

How did it happen, and when, and why?

They were self-dependent and free birds, un-disturbing, living by themselves. Why did man touch them?

Did he really know nothing or was he ignorant?

Was he imbecile enough to understand nothing or was he indifferent enough to refuse to understand?

Or was he selfish enough to pretend that he knew nothing?

There was a man. --- But now there was no chioo.