By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD
After reading my last article about my childhood fascination for roadside fortune-tellers and their fortune-telling parrots, many readers responded with different emotions. While some said that they had never known of the existence of such fortune-tellers, many others said that with their lifelong existence on the roadside, their plight seem very pitiable. A few others said that the plight of their parrots was the most pitiable because of their cramped, lifelong confinement to tiny cages and a boring diet of the same grains when they were meant by the maker to be free-flying birds feasting on the most varied kinds of fruits and berries!
