Born Free...to love and not hate...

13th April, 2010...

I had the opportunity of seeing "Born Free" (1966) on the television. It was an Oscar winning movie and though I have heard about the movie, it was a pleasure watching it today.

It is really amazing to see the friendliness the lioness has towards her guardians, Joy Adamson and George Adamson. She grows up playing with them and later the Adamsons realize that they have to either send her to a zoo or set her free. As Joy does not want her to be caged in a zoo for the rest of her life, they decide to set her free in the jungle.

Initially, Elsa, the lioness is unable to chase or kill her prey but later learns it and finally she is set free.

She manages to find a partner and finally when the couple go to meet Elsa again, she comes running towards them with her 3 little cubs and spends the noon with them. Then her master, the king of the jungle, roars and calls her and she returns to him with her cubs giving a last loving look at the Adamsons.


It is indeed a very astonishing fact to see how animals show their love, affection and gratitude to the human beings while we resort to not only hunting them as a sport but also kill our own fellow brothers in the name of religion, caste, creed and greed and what not...

Hope we start learning to love one another from these animals and birds who are much more cultured and well behaved than us...

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I LOVE TO......

I love to see old black/white Tamil movies on telly, do u know why? neither today nor tomorrow can u see such pollution free roads with very very lil traffic, a bus here, a cycle there and a taxi or 2 here....no sights of huge gigantic lorries or water tankers, no autos trying to squeeze between cycles, no potholes gaping at passers by...... u shd see the broad mount road area esplly near LIC in movies like anubhavi raja anubhavi.... villages with beautiful fields and flowing rivers and lovely waterfalls....

SIGH...what have we all done to eliminate such beautiful things from our lives? future generations will not even be able to imagine such things. we seem to be at the peak of a very fast life where time is running out for everyone. no one has the time nor patience to stand and admire nature any more...and nature is also being slowly "killed" by us....

we shd all try to end this killing cos when nature takes its revenge on us (which has already started......bihar floods recent one), we will have to plunge from our peak fast. energy conservation, rain water harvesting, forest and wild life preservations.....such means shd be adopted seriously and sincerely by each one of us in whatever ways we can. even creating an awareness about all these will lend a helping hand to saving our world for our future generation.