Where are all the sparrows gone? This man is in a mighty hurry to save before it's too late.

Little creatures that chirp and move around in the air, which greet us every morning with their twittering and those that innocently peck on "kolam" or rangoli that's made on the entrance of the Indian houses with rice flour - I hope you must have recognised what I'm talking about. The pretty little sparrows. If you can say immediately that they are sparrows, then you should also be able to understand that the next generation shall not be able to. Where are they? Are they flying in the air? Are they living in the nests? Are they breeding on the branches of trees? Or are they fluttering on the terrace of your house? They are seen nowhere these days and are being lost. "I grew up hearing stories from her father about how there would be hundreds of sparrows chirping on our terrace before I was born. However, these were only stories, for I had never seen more than two sparrows at once.", said Varshini KC, a student of Class VII from Sri Sankaralinga Nadar Higher Secondary School.