The rays of the sun spill apart as soon as they crash on tree leaves. Some of it drips down to the red granular lane, lighting up the path between dense trees on either side of the lane. This is the walking track of the Nehru park illuminated with morning sunlight in the fresh winter air (or as fresh as it can be with an AQI of 270). The yellow chandeliers, like the Amaltas tree, flaming red Gulmohar , scented Saptparnis along with endless shrubs and flowers make up the essence of this park. In contrast to the silence on the lanes, the air is filled with the chitterings of the birds perched on these trees. Looking around their surroundings , any passerby may say these birds seem to be in a foul mood today, with no fault of their own.

 Mother nature took 4.5 billion years to evolve life to this stage today where every species has a specific role to play on our beautiful (but now wretched ) planet. Oceans have become polluted , air has been toxicated and the climatic calendar has been disturbed by the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane in nature. Bird species have been robbed of their habitat, and we are now just scrambling to retrieve the situation. As the trees are cut down for construction and economic activities all the winged creatures are left to survive in the only few regions left with greenery, which makes the competition for food so fierce among them that they succumb to their extinction. Sometimes these green places are also subject to plastic pollution which is yet another human-induced destruction of nature. Perhaps the cries of the birds are an echo of the fury of nature. 

Humans have started to mend their ways by adopting environmentally friendly policies, shifting to the use of renewable sources of energy and adopting sustainable ways of living with given technology and money , hopefully it will be enough to compensate for the damage already done.

Gulmohar

Amaltas