renuka
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Here is the story...today morning the Bangladeshi barber shop workers next to my clinic asked me if I would want a tortoise.
They said one of the shops owners had abandoned it and it was in a bucket half filled with water and no one wanted it...it was just a few feet away from my clinic.
I saw that the water in the bucket was turbid mainly becos some people were feeding it with malabar roti and a thin film of oil was covering the water.
The tortoise was kind of big too..as big as an eating plate..pale grey in color.
I told the workers that they should not feed it roti but rather feed it stuff like vegetables and someone should change the water so that it can have a proper supply of oxygen.
But no one wanted to do it..then I told another worker to take it to a nearby stream and leave it since no one was willing to look after it.
But he was not too keen.
I then came back to my clinic and was reading Valmiki Ramayan (VR) in my free time and I started to feel uneasy that I am reading VR but still havent done anything yet for the tortoise.
So I decided to take the tortoise myself to the stream..took my car keys and went to get the tortoise but it was not there.
I asked the workers and they told me that one of the workers changed his mind and decided to follow what I told him to do and he along with another friend took the tortoise and let it free into the stream.
Later the worker laughingly told me that the tortoise literally ran into the water and seemed very happy.
So I felt a great relief..that "Narayana" was saved.
I felt its not often we get a chance to save "Narayana".
They said one of the shops owners had abandoned it and it was in a bucket half filled with water and no one wanted it...it was just a few feet away from my clinic.
I saw that the water in the bucket was turbid mainly becos some people were feeding it with malabar roti and a thin film of oil was covering the water.
The tortoise was kind of big too..as big as an eating plate..pale grey in color.
I told the workers that they should not feed it roti but rather feed it stuff like vegetables and someone should change the water so that it can have a proper supply of oxygen.
But no one wanted to do it..then I told another worker to take it to a nearby stream and leave it since no one was willing to look after it.
But he was not too keen.
I then came back to my clinic and was reading Valmiki Ramayan (VR) in my free time and I started to feel uneasy that I am reading VR but still havent done anything yet for the tortoise.
So I decided to take the tortoise myself to the stream..took my car keys and went to get the tortoise but it was not there.
I asked the workers and they told me that one of the workers changed his mind and decided to follow what I told him to do and he along with another friend took the tortoise and let it free into the stream.
Later the worker laughingly told me that the tortoise literally ran into the water and seemed very happy.
So I felt a great relief..that "Narayana" was saved.
I felt its not often we get a chance to save "Narayana".
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