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. FacebookX Related Related posts: City Moment – Annie Ernaux Starts Singing, Lodhi Gardens City Moment – Friends from Kabul, Lodhi Gardens City Moment – Two Friends, Lodhi Gardens City Moment – Dance in the Park, Lodhi Gardens City Moment – Yoga Homage to Emperor Muhammad Shah, Lodhi Gardens
Amazing photos. I have seen this many times in Lodi Gardens, of course, but never in this exact sequence. Lovely 🙂
“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