A Crow

A Crow

Crows might not be the stateliest of birds, but they can be adorable in their own peculiar way. Seeing a crow reminds me of two fables:

a.) The relatively common one involving a hot summer day, a wise cow, a half-filled pitcher of water and a few pebbles.

b.) A somewhat rarer one (set in the Raj days) about a British civil servant, who, having been unable to communicate to his peon to keep the office door closed, seeks counsel from his fellow colleagues. They tell him to use the phrase “There was a band banned crow” as it sounds somewhat like “दरवाज़ा बंद करो”. Apparently, it worked! (Read in Reader’s Digest some months ago).

  • Ashwin Nanjappa
    Quaint, the second story :-)
  • Avishek Chakravarty
    The one that I had heard in school went the other way. As in, "There was a cold day." which sounded somewhat like “दरवाज़ा खोल दे”.

    Apparently, these were the (unbelievable) lyrics to a song being sung by an Englishman while he took his bath, when much to his embarassment, his brown minion thought his master had finally got a hold of the local tongue. :)
  • Oh yes, that too! I actually heard of them together, but since it had nothing to do with crows, I only told half the joke ;-)
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