LT COL NOEL ELLIS 02/VII/2025 We have a bridge on the main highway over river Jojhri which flows adjoining our colony. It is about seventy meters long. All traffic to and fro from Gujrat travels over it. On the surface it is busy and noisy with speeding vehicles but down under it is a different world. That world is calm, in no hurry but in constant worry of someone trespassing. A man-made structure would turn into a living space in this concrete jungle is quite unimaginable. But these guys have adapted to it so well. This colony is definitely not of humans. They have about seven to eight ‘floors’ out of which only five of them are occupied. If you halt a while and understand their logic, it doesn’t take time to understand why they occupy higher floors. The lower ones are taken only if they do not have any alternative. I am talking of a colony of Mynahs, who are occupants of drainage holes of the retaining walls of ...