Where are the twitters?

Sparrows are really getting rarer these days. There are more people willing to tweet on twitter than see where the real twitters have gone. They have all but vanished. Some say that they are extinct and others say that our telecom towers have something to do with it. Sparrows would never be a concern for most people because there are many more critical issues like recession, world peace and terrorism on people's mind.

I remember how as a kid I could see them at a very close distance and discovered a lot about them. I saw them pecking at grains thrown outside a kirana store or enter an empty house just to see where they could build a little nest. The sparrow was important in the scheme of things because they would survive anything or so it seems. The recent opening of shopping malls with all the foodgrains inside the store has hampered the easy food availability of these birds.

Maybe they have migrated somewhere. But in the quiet surroundings of a house, it made those twitters wonderful. Maybe we forgot to keep some small space in our house for those unfortunate creatures. Maybe we don't care.