Symian thoughts.....लंगूर विचार मंच

Outstanding photograph of a thoughtful langoor, at the Bandhavgarh National Park. Clicked by Prasad Paranjape of Pune . See many of his other wonderful photos here.

I've never seen any animal with such a human like thinking visage/expression.

It's not entirely impossible, that given the sort of scam news we are hearing day after day, about crooks and crooked folk, maybe the langoors are doing a rethink ?

(Like before, the original poem in the Kings language (marathi), and a rough translation in the Queen's)

(photo by Prasad Paranjape)

आम्ही पण
उंचावर वावरतो ,
दुसर्यांनी लावलेली फळे ओरबाडतो ,
आमची स्वतःची मुलं पोटाशी घालतो,
देशाच्या राना कोपर्यात
सोपा खाउ शोधत उंडारतो,
पण
आजकालचे
राजा, बच्चा , बावळा (नाहीतर बलवा ),
आणि इतर चोर लोकान बद्दल ऐकलं
कि वाटत
आपण लंगूर राहिलो तेच बर आहे ........

We too ,
wander
high up there,
enjoy,
grabbing fruits
on trees,
planted
and nurtured
by someone else....

We too,
blindly,
offer our kids
something to latch on to,
when
inability wins.....

We too,
ravish and loot
the country
end-to-end,
for
easy pickings
of treasures.......

Now that
I've heard
of theives
like
Raja,
Batcha,
and Bawla ***
(or is it Balwa, never mind),
I am just
relieved
that
I have remained,
in the end,
a langoor........

***Ministers and scamsters currently in jail for looting the country outrageously in an unending shameless telecommunication corruption scam.