Birds Borderless Bonding Well

Ah borderless birds ever so cute That believed in no border dispute, Yet, at the embassy level The matter was placed still. A bird had come from far across To spend winter in warmer climes, To them border made no good rhymes— To them human concerns were gross. A goose when came, with a transmitter came, With a passport, visa, number nor name, Dropping it off— what was to it tied, It migrated back to Chinese side. Poor bar-headed migrating geese— Mongolian, Tibetan or Chinese, Knowing no diplomatic ways, Made Indians run on a wild-goose chase! _______________________________________ A bar-headed goose crossed on to Indian side (Karnataka, capital Bangalore where I am spending my time at present)to spend winter months. Poor thing, it knew nothing of Indo-Chinese Line of Actual Control (LAC) . And it so happened that it lost its satellite transmitter fixed on to it in China. On request from China, India searched for this transmitter and found it. It became a case of birds that believed in no borders, nor diplomatic niceties, but still helped establishing some bond between two countries. ____________________________________________ Happenings |02.10.2019|