The festival is traditionally credited to the 8th-century Hindu philosopher and saint Adi Shankara, as a part of his efforts to start major Hindu gatherings for philosophical discussions and debates along with Hindu monasteries across the Indian subcontinent
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices,
Delhi, despite being a crowded capital city, has a rich variety of birdlife and most of the commoner Indian birds are to be seen in its environs. The riverain so, tract along the Jamuna, the dry scrubland forests of the northern Ridge and the swampy marshes of the Sultanpur fir hil south of the city offer a wide range of bird habitat.
Keoladeo National Park or Keoladeo Ghana National Park formerly known as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India is a famous avi fauna sanctuary that hosts thousands of birds, especially during the winter season. Over 350 species of birds are known to be resident. It is also a major tourist center with scores of ornithologists arriving here in the hibernate season.