City Birds
In “City Birds,” I explore the urban landscape, highlighting how residents respond, adapt, and transform within their surroundings. Employing a mixed-methods approach, I examine the symbiotic relationships between Mumbai’s two most ubiquitous inhabitants: humans and pigeons. For both, the city holds a lure of shelter and livelihood.
Over the past few years, I have observed similarities between humans and pigeons as we traverse and navigate the city. Not only do we share similar expectations of the city—harboring an impossible utopian quest within each of us—but pigeons’ nonverbal cues and behaviors have also come to resemble those of humans, as if the city affects us similarly, changing and molding us indiscriminately and impartially.
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