A Perfect Birthday Party For This Pet Parrot

By Staff

Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 11:58

Now, it seems, even pets are no excuse when it comes to birthday bash. A musical band, hordes of sweets and a cake, made a perfect birthday bash thrown up by painter Baijnath Sharma, for his pet parrot.

Is it intriguing enough to make you wonder about what kind of celebration it would have had been. Well, the birthday bash, just like a lot of others, was held in traditional style as Sharma offered prayers at one of the numerous temples dotting the landscape of varanasi, for a long life of his pet on the occasion of the parrot's 25th birthday.

The aging parrot, which has lost all his hair, was garlanded and made to eat sweets on his birthday. "We have prepared sweets for him and also cut a cake. We are celebrating its 25th birthday," he said.

The birthday party took the devotees visiting the temple by surprise and the children were even treated to birthday sweets. "We had come to pay obeisance to the deity. We saw that a parrot's birthday was being celebrated here. We pray that all the hair that the parrot has lost grow back," said Sakshi, a devotee.

Now what remains the biggest question, at least to me, is how did the benevolent Mr. Sharma got to know about the bird's birthday.

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