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A Black Kite Comes Calling…

Being visited by Aerial friends!

Alifia by Alifia
June 9, 2026
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I get inquisitive Crows on my window all the time. And squabbly Pigeons. Also energetic, chirping Sparrows. Sometimes, a raucous Parrot. Before the monsoon, a shy Cuckoo hides among the trees outside my window singing its rain song. But that’s nothing. My friend Danny Carroll, who lives in a penthouse at Breach Candy overlooking the Coastal Road, is visited daily by this magnificent but menacing Black Kite.
Danny is an international bestselling and award-winning author, and a health coach. He helps people with chronic and terminal illnesses to fully recover their health by addressing the cause of the disease. However, I visit him to enjoy a cigar and Irish whiskey while the sun is setting beyond in the Arabian Sea. Which I doubt are the Black Kite’s reasons. It is a bird of prey, after all. Not a feathered friend. The pariah of the skies.
This handsome raptor scavenges the Breach Candy rocks for dead fish. Then checks on Danny. Landing on his sundeck with angled wings spread, dark brown plumage ruffled by the sea breeze and forked tail hanging like a tattered banner, looking like a Jurassic Park monster carved in stone. Few moments later it glides off on thermal air currents. To circle the heavens for hours. Its cold black eyes scanning the ground for offal, carcasses and prey.
Between December and April, the bird’s breeding season, Danny allowed it to nest on his terrace. He is a kind, thoughtful and generous man. And the Black Kite is a protected species. Now it revisits him daily. Announcing its arrival with a shrill cry. But it gets jealous if anybody else is on the terrace. Like a kamikaze pilot, the Black Kite swoops down to attack them. Talons extended. Danny’s maid sweeps the terrace wearing his bike helmet!

About Mark Manuel 

The above thoughts/content has been proudly copied from the wall of Sir Mark Manuel. Being interviewing almost every role model of this country and going stronger each day. Mark Manuel is a respected Mumbai editor, writer, and columnist.

With over three decades of journalism in leading publications. This includes the Free Press Journal, Times, Dainik Bhaskar, Mid-Day, and Afternoon. He is famous for his brilliant pen interviews. He himself is a TEDx speaker.

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His interviews have featured in several leading media houses. They include the Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, BBC, and Network 18. Almost every famous person has been interviewed by him in the country from Mother Teresa to Muhammad Ali. His first book is just out. It’s titled Moryaa Re! It is a crime thriller that is perhaps the country’s first police procedural. He began his career covering crime. And in a tribute to his experience and knowledge of this beat.

Several distinguished officers of the Mumbai Police and its Crime Branch collaborated with him to make this book possible. Amitabh Bachchan wrote the forward in a statement of friendship for Mark Manuel and admiration for his work.

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