January 4, 2012
It is not often that we come across an unusually exciting sight with a strong moral fibre, but that is exactly what happened last week as my wife and I set out to do some shopping in our colony.
As I was driving leisurely along, my wife suddenly screamed at me to halt and my leg automatically screeched the car to a stop. The result was a breathtaking sight of a stray dog tip toeing along the kerb, absolutely free from fear with a cute baby monkey on its back.
On realising that the dog and the baby monkey are being looked after by a family nearby, I set out in the evening to take some snaps of the loving pair.
The family told me that for the last six months the monkey has been living with the dog and it strayed into their house and her pet dog immediately took to liking the monkey and it was like love at first sight. They have been continuing to live together thereafter. The dog has been extremely caring and the pair would never part from each other.
Really a most unusual friendship indeed when I reflect how furiously monkeys have been chased away by dogs. The neighbours told me that the pair has become very “famous” next only to the Chief Minister Mayawati as they have been attracting many people who come and take photographs of the pair.
Now as I write this, another year is slipping out of our hands and many near and dear ones have departed this world during this time.
Time never waits for anyone, but certainly time can be better spent and the world would be a better place to live by being good to one another irrespective of caste or religion.
May be we can take a leaf out of the friendship of the picture of the friendly pair above to cast away whatever ill feelings that we nourish against our fellowmen.
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