Flykiddz

Every morning melodious number rhyme sweetened our little home. "One, two, three ....seven mangoes.....interruption...mummy clap".Every day my toddler headed straight from bed to balcony to count the number of mangoes hanging in a nearby mango tree and was so contented to see the count increasing as the summers advanced. This was his daily pattern until one day when out of his habit he ran to the balcony and found no tree. "It is gone" he cried. I followed his footsteps only to find that the tree had been axed. It was equally difficult to control an inconsolable child and sight of fallen branches kissing the deserted roadside. "One, two, three.....". These words echoed in my ears for days. The events that followed - people showing solidarity to protect trees from being axed in Delhi, a  meet in Kolkata on awareness of widespread environmental degradation in megapolises, the concerns to improve the urban living standards by adopting eco-friendly, green ar