You can daily seek the blessings of your departed elders by tolerating these birds instead of driving them away. They make homes on trees of the cremation ground as they do not want to leave your company. These white egrets are actually the вЂroohвЂ™ of your elders who have departed from this world and have taken the form of birds. I said, you people believe the departed human spirit is associated with shades of white - the вЂchitti roohвЂ™. вЂњI addressed them in their cultural idiom. He chose not to hector them with вЂsave our planetвЂ™ sermons. Wise to prevalent social, religious and cultural values, Sharma reached out to the tree hackers in a creative manner. The spectacle was reminiscent of shanties razed by bulldozers, with melancholic children retrieving toys and ragged text books from homeвЂ™s rubble. The treeвЂ™s amputated limbs had come to signify a short-lived transition from вЂwomb to tombвЂ™ for the avian progeny. Tearless egrets perched on piles of logs looked down at their smothered dead chicks and wasted eggs. The biodiversity scene was now more in harmony with simmering pyres. The villagers should have waited for the breeding season to end before hacking,вЂќ Amit Sharma, an environmentalist and banker posted at Shankarpura told this writer after having witnessed the pruning.Д«ird carcasses, egg shells, struggling chicks, logs and feathers drifting in the wind like ashes bore grim testimony to the apocalypse. Fortunately, the cremation ground is surrounded by paddy fields where some homeless chicks secured refuge from dogs. вЂњAn estimated 100 egrets and eight cormorants lost their homes after the drastic pruning. The effect on the other side, the birth givers, was catastrophic. The pruned tree at the cremation ground egrets perch on treeвЂ™s logs with dead chicks inside the pile. So, the villageвЂ™s gurdwara committee took the decision to prune and put an end to the birdsвЂ™ occupation,вЂќ Sawinder Singh, husband of ShankarpuraвЂ™s sarpanch, Davinder Kaur, told this writer. The demand from villagers to prune the tree gathered pace after those three back-to-back cremations. It affected the villageвЂ™s reputation as mourners had to stand under the tree with poop falling on them. вЂњThe birdsвЂ™ poop and overpowering stink caused severe discomfort to mourners and their relatives who had come from far and near. That became the catalyst for a breakdown of human-bird coexistence. Ten days back, Shankarpura bore three deaths in a day leading to a surge of mourners. That had genuine implications for mourners. Over time, the canopy grew crowded with bird apartments and cast a shadow on the pyre spots below. A looming Philkhan tree sporting a fast-growing, widening canopy and situated in the groundвЂ™s centre had been occupied by Paddy egrets and Little cormorants. We have glimpsed peacock and crows foraging in the remains of a pyre in late evening or at dawn when all is morosely quiet and lukewarm in the rows of ash beds.ДЄt the cremation ground of village Shankarpura in PunjabвЂ™s Batala tehsil, this accommodation of death and birth spanning many years suffered a breakdown. Paradoxes of existence, complexities of interaction, parallel value systems and a conflict of interests can bedevil spaces shared by humanity with wild creatures.Д¬remation grounds are appointed with towering trees which support avian life and attendant biodiversity even as resident wild creatures witness the repetition of grieving human rituals.Д«irds breed in cremation ground trees and new lives flower even as the logs below greedily hiss and crackle, flames devour spent flesh, and rage at those hard bones that stubbornly stage their last stand against the inevitability of ashes.

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