{"id":177714,"date":"2021-01-25T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=177714"},"modified":"2021-01-22T07:16:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T07:16:02","slug":"conversing-with-each-other-people-birds-and-other-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/01\/conversing-with-each-other-people-birds-and-other-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversing with Each Other \u2014 People, Birds and Other Creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People can speak, they can recite poems<br \/>\n<em>Twinkle Twinkle little Star<\/em><br \/>\n<em>How I wonder what you are<\/em><br \/>\nThey can use words to tell who they are<\/p>\n<p>Human language helps people to communicate<br \/>\nExpressions, gestures also enable them to relate<\/p>\n<p>But so many languages make communication difficult<br \/>\nNot only\u00a0that, we want our language to flourish<br \/>\nBe it Portuguese, French, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish<br \/>\nTamil, Malayan, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati<br \/>\nAs well as decreasing speakers of Sindhi<\/p>\n<p>Historically dominant languages were thrust on a captured land<br \/>\nAlmost no one to speak one\u2019s tribal language in Australia, New Zealand<br \/>\nAlso few speakers of <em>Njerep<\/em> in Nigeria and <em>Liki<\/em> in Papua Islands<br \/>\nHundreds of tribal tongues, many in India\u2019s Andaman Nicobar Islands<\/p>\n<p>Animals and birds communicate with one another<br \/>\nNo effort at showing who is superior<br \/>\nThe animal grunts or barks the same way globally<br \/>\nA lion from Africa or from India roars similarly<\/p>\n<p>Elephants rule the roost in African territory<br \/>\nBut they are butchered for their ivory<\/p>\n<p>Horses were brought from other regions to India<br \/>\nThey neigh as they did earlier, bringing cheer to all<br \/>\nDo they remember their earlier homes \u2014 not at all<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful green parrots \u2014 can learn human lingo<br \/>\nWith other parrots and birds they can do tango<br \/>\nBirds fly high and chirp when they come to their nests<br \/>\nThey take care of their own, also other birds\u2019 chicks<br \/>\nThey feed them, teach them how to fly and do some tricks<\/p>\n<p>Sparrows and woodpeckers coo coo in lilting manner<br \/>\nSo lilting, so musical on the human ear<br \/>\nBirdsongs keep us happy, smiling and chirpy<br \/>\nWe must learn from these birds<br \/>\nHow they coo and how to live together<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ravi-P.-Bhatia-150x150-1-e1596524021103.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-166069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ravi-P.-Bhatia-150x150-1-e1596524021103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Dr Ravi P Bhatia is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, an<\/em> <em>educationist, Gandhian scholar and peace researcher. Retired professor, Delhi University. His new book, <\/em>A Garland of Ideas\u2014Gandhian, Religious, Educational, Environmental <em>was published recently in Delhi.<\/em> <em><a href=\"ravipbhatia@gmail.com\">ravipbhatia@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People can speak, they can recite poems<br \/>\nTwinkle Twinkle little Star<br \/>\nHow I wonder what you are<br \/>\nThey can use words to tell who they are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-177714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}