Friday, December 19, 2008

Titli udi, udke chali !!












Butterfly (or titli in hindi, Chitrashalabam in Malayalam) is an amazing creature. There was a time when it was very common to find them around now they have vanished completely atleast in the cities. The best part of growing up in cantonments is that it generally has lots of open space gardens and trees, and therefore varieties of insects…butterfly, dragonflies so on. Even now if this blogger comes across any butterfly while traveling I do spend time to look at it and attempt to identify (there are always little yellows, sootywings, and occasional monarchs and admirals). The other day I froze these in my camera, they came out amazing.










Going with the beauty of this creature different societies have some equally suitable and amusing names. Here are some Papillion (in French), Farfalla (in Italian), Kupu kupu (in Indonesia), Fluture (in Romania), Parvani (Farsi), Farasha (in Arabic), Buraburay (in Ethiopia), Babochka (in Russia…I like that one), Kelebek (in Turkey)…..and of course Chou Chou (in Japan) and Buom Buom (in Vietnam). Appropriately there is lots of playfulness in many of these names. That is impression you when you watch them. Incidentally the ancient Greeks called butterflies psyche!!. Psyche means mind. Meaning mind is like a butterfly. Greeks knew it centuries back. Incredible people.

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