Reminiscing ( Science Teacher)

It's the small hours of the fifth day of the lockdown. I was standing on the terrace,looking down at the passers by. My mother was sweeping the doorstep before adorning that with decorative patterns, wearing a kerchief as a protective mask! Our nextdoor aunty was sweeping the garbage away and uncle was Venturing out for a morning walk, his everyday ritual. Some three to four people were passing by, wearing masks for numerous reasons– to buy milk, newspaper and so on. 

In the flickering street light's dull luminance I could see a carcass of a mouse on the path unremoved by anyone. The passers by didn't give a damn about that and walked past mindlessly. I could neither find any scavenger around to wipe it off nor could I gesture my mother to do that.

Within a wink of my eyes there came a murder of crows. They started feasting on the carcass; thereby scavenging the carcass. I was reminded of my sixth standard science teacher telling, "Crows are natural scavengers".

How true she was!!!