“Where are you O Wild Deer?
I have known you for a while, here.”
From Shams al-Din Hafez’s – Wild Deer
His love for wildlife is probably as old as his days of reasoning.
From Shams al-Din Hafez’s – Wild Deer
His love for wildlife is probably as old as his days of reasoning.
Never had he let go of a dog or a bull that he found were being wronged on the streets.
He stood for the rights of animals at every road he traversed.
They called him a fool, a man who cared for the senseless.
He stood for the rights of animals at every road he traversed.
They called him a fool, a man who cared for the senseless.
(He had feelings for the ones who were speechless but never senseless.)
After living for almost seven decades this Old man and his Sea (natural world) have been in love with each other. He always took a stand whether verbal or physical to help mankind respect its first friends in the world or more so its relatives from primitive societies. Blame it first to Neolithic Revolution which domesticated and subjugated animals for socio- economic growth of the human race and later to the approaching class societies which ill-treated animals for commercial gains, the reasons for victimizing wildlife have always been justified by both the owner and the working classes.
Poets, lovers and loners have always had compassion for animals, may be because they could relate to their warmth and coldness; to their black and white; to their beauty and their wrath.
After living for almost seven decades this Old man and his Sea (natural world) have been in love with each other. He always took a stand whether verbal or physical to help mankind respect its first friends in the world or more so its relatives from primitive societies. Blame it first to Neolithic Revolution which domesticated and subjugated animals for socio- economic growth of the human race and later to the approaching class societies which ill-treated animals for commercial gains, the reasons for victimizing wildlife have always been justified by both the owner and the working classes.
Poets, lovers and loners have always had compassion for animals, may be because they could relate to their warmth and coldness; to their black and white; to their beauty and their wrath.
His recent works have been around protecting wildlife as an activist in his native village Sohagpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. Having learnt non-formally about deers and their lifestyles, it is remarkable to see him shed gyaan on all sorts of deers (Indian and foreign).
He has pointed out various mistakes made by prominent magazines like MUKTA (regional) which covered the story of Nawab Pataudi’s extravagant killing of endangered black-buck which was reported as “kale-hiran yaani Chinkara ka shikaar kiya” whereas, Kaala Hiran is a black buck in Hindi language and Chinkara is a Gazella bennetti, according to him both these animals are widely different from each other and for a reputed magazine to make such a mistake is very demeaning. Referring to incense sticks companies he pointed out a pack which says Musk Incense Sticks and has a spotted deer made on it and another which says Kasturi (musk) Agarbatti but has a Chinkara drawn on the pack. These are confusing wrong connotations made unknowingly by industries but they have an impact on the buyer who will start relating to what is wrongly taught. He stands up against such violence to specie already endangered and collapsing by the hour.
He politely asks, “how will the coming generation make a difference, they’ll be confused and thus call Black-bucks, Chinkaras, Barasinghas, et al: only deers.”
By Kulsoom Rashid for her uncle Syed Ilyas (Pamliwale).
If interested, contact him at: 07575 278417
If interested, contact him at: 07575 278417
