Economic figures may recover in future, but his childhood cannot.......

(Source: picture captured at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India on 18th July 2012)

Economic figures may recover in future, but his childhood cannot.




Regards
Amol Nakve.

The Thorn Birds

From the very first page of novel -The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough. 

There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and GOD in his heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain…..or so say the legend..

-Amol