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The Kabootar Dance.

      Today, as I was watching the sky, standing atop my terrace, of my rented apartment, I saw two Kabootars (Pigeons). One appeared to be tinier in size and built, than the other. The other one looked robust and bigger in comparison. The little one kept flying off, while the robust one kept following it around. This went on for a while. The little one would perch from one wall to the other and the big one would walk, twirl, as if it were on a ramp, at a mid-turn, and then continue to make way, towards the little one.   It took me a while to figure, that I was a witness to an active chase in process, and then, it all clicked and I immediately knew, the genders of both pigeons. After that, it was like watching a little game, where the tiny one was the Girl, and the big one was the Guy, and the plot was the helpless and the bully. This, I assumed.   I was wrong!   At first, it looked as if she was intimidated by his presence and incessant cha...