Animals in the City
qarrtsiluni magazine's current issue has the theme "Animals in the City". As always, the magazine goes online in daily posts, and now my contribution is online: "F/light". The photo, it's from my first journey to India - and i still remember walking into this city square, and finding myself in a scene that could come from Hitchcock's film "The Birds".
The city is: Jaipur, and maybe you've seen images of its iconic building before: The Palace of the Winds. Here's a photo, if you look closely, you can see the similar facade structures in the upper right corner of the birds photo.
And an extra note for the extra-animal in the photo: the cow. It's an animal you can see often in India, and it also is a symbol for how different animals are seen in different cultures: for us, cows are one of the main animals to farm and turn into meat. In India, cows are holy: the idea to eat cow creates the same reaction as the idea to eat cat or dog would create for a Westerner. They are the givers of milk, though, and Indian families who own a cow are lucky . In another culture difference, cows are walking freely in the streets of India, creating unusual-for-us sights in the city centers, like this scene:
More animals, in the city and elswewhere:
Make sure to check out the other entries in the qarrtsiluni "Animals in the City" issue, too. quite a number of birds populate it. Would be interesting to see a final animal statistic once it is completely online :)
The issue also brought me back to another online issue: YB poetry #5: Animal with Bumblebee, Dog, Squirrel, Monkey, Fish, Snail Woman, Reindeer and more wildness.
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