Cacophonous Mynas
Personal memory by Ram Sinam
1970 • Imphal, Manipur, India
I remember there would be hundreds or perhaps thousands of squabbling mynas in the bamboo groves in the evenings. Sheer cacophony and jostling in the fast disappearing light every evening, competing with the cicadas till the darkness engulfs; then murmurs into stillness till the sound of crickets other insects, and then complete darkness, setting the stage for the flitting fireflies. The bamboo groves have disappeared and so has the mynas. Memories of the early seventies in Imphal, Manipur, in the North East of India.
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