i am nagarajan, working in state bank of india, chennai. i had visited hyderabad in 1989 as an inspection assistant and visited toopran adb branch where yr father was br manager. i had visited your house also, near the tank bund. in 1990 again i came to yr house with my sister who was appearing for an interview in CISF.

now, i would like to contact your father. will u get me his phone no. / email id.

incidentally, impressed by your father’s traits, i have named my second son visveshwar. he is very good in flute. you can view his performance video in website FLUTEVISVESHWAR.COM

regards,

nagarajan.
07.09.2009

What an interesting take on this! Anthropomorphising for sure; still, very, very cool. We have no idea what goes on in the minds of beings of other species. You could be right. Who knows?

This would make a great short story with a little dialogue added. Do you write?

“Not only is the universe queerer than you imagine. It is queerer than you CAN imagine.” JBS Haldane, Scottish mathematician. (Please! “Queer” in the sense of “strange.”)

Second, it is like the bison don’t just come back, but rather as if the bison hold a congress or trial, with some defending the cause of freeing the baby, and others not so sure. Perhaps they *are* unsure of whether this is a bad thing or not. But one seems to be very much in defense of the baby, and throws off a lion. Then a bunch chase the lions, while the remaining lions chew on the baby.

Others, then, seem to discuss what more to do, and finally prod the other lions away from the baby, freeing him to go back into the central herd.

It makes me wonder whether the youth was being tried for arrogance as a capital crime. Or whether the bison were discussing appropriate responses to each of the other lions.

Maybe I’m just anthropomorphizing here. But maybe other social creatures do have significantly developed social structures. Maybe courts and law are not unique to humans.

From the YouTube Video Awards, just FYI:

Best eyewitness video was the epic “Battle at
Kruger,” which has drawn more than 26 million
views to its astonishing footage of a baby water
buffalo surviving an attack by lions ­ and a
crocodile! ­ in the African prairie. It was up
against the news-making clip of a University of
Florida student pleading “Don’t tase me, bro!” as
police removed him from a John Kerry forum.