Nirvana Academy staged “My Love for Birds” Dogri play in Monsoon Masti Festival 2014

Jammu, 29 August: Nirvana Academy a regd. Cultural club today staged Dogri play “My Love for Birds” in Monsoon Masti festival organised by Heritage Strings school of rock and city square. The play was written and directed by Tarun Sharma. The play highlights the issues related in saving birds and environment in urban cities. 

The story of the play had four different parts in which groups of house sparrows and crows in urban cities discussing the role of nature and its environment and sidelined the storing and confronting problems pertaining to the degradation of the environment and conservation of nature. In the first part, the group of sparrows recalled the time, when children were woken up by parents in the morning by their cajole that, “Son, see, the sparrows have come, crows have come, parrots have come. Please wake up.” Children got ready for the school in no time by watching the small sparrows sitting on the wall and tweeting incessantly. But now, time has totally changed. Instead of mentioning the names of such birds, children are woken up by mentioning TV cartoon characters.

There was a good time in the past when ladies had cultivated the habitat of setting apart some grains for birds while cleaning and storing grains. Birds were in the habitat of merrily visiting the houses in search of grains and the ladies were happy to feed them daily. Nowadays very seldom people are bothered about buying grains and storing, instead a majority of people go for purchasing ready made items, processed and well packed and in some cases even half-cooked. The poor birds have to bear the brunt of this bad trend and they are deprived of their life sustaining food and nobody is paying attention to feed them, leaving them starved and ultimately leading to death. Apart from this, the bird population is declining due to the harmful electromagnetic waves emitted by the tall mobile towers standing as symbols of modern telecommunication system. The exhaust fumes released by countless vehicles carrying toxic substances has a catastrophic effect on birds population.
In the third section of the play, the characters performance raised the issue that conservation of forests and agricultural tends into dwelling units and factories is the main culprit, threatening the birds population. They

further showcase that the pushing of many species of birds to the border line of extinction is due to deforestation coupled with environmental pollution and habitat destruction.
The play also highlights the role of birds in our culture, traditions, rituals and mythological history. In the end play highlighted the importance of preservation of wetlands and the extinction crisis threatening nature's global travellers ie Migratory birds.
Those who performed in the play were Tarun Sharma, Paramjeet Kour Pammy, Sourav Sharma, Nikhil, Rahul Verma and Vikas Jasrotia. Event managed by Anmol Amla, coordinated by Sanchit Dewan and designed by Nipun Kohli.