Author: daktre
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The Biligirirangan Hills: Tracing history of the land, the people and the forests
A shorter edited version of this article appeared in JLRExplore in two parts (read part 1 and part 2). Thanks to Dr. Santosh Kumar (IFS) & S Karthikeyan for help and inputs.
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Of babbers & bulbuls: BR Hills birds at the intersections of Biology Anthropology and Geography
At the 2021 edition of the Karnataka Bird Festival held at BR Hills somewhere neatly between the damp squib of a first wave (in Chamarajanagar) and the severe second wave, a small F2F gathering with online streaming of talks was organised. I did a broad sweep of birds of br hills overlaid on how the…
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Open letter to President Kovind
Dear Mr President, It was another October in the year 2006, when a vehicle bearing the national emblem instead of a license plate (as is the norm for vehicles transporting the President) stopped at B R Hills in Chamarajanagar district of southern Karnataka. It was an exciting time for the Solega people who were among…
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Corona Maari/ಕೊರೊನ ಮಾರಿ
ಚೀನಾದಿಂದ ಎಲ್ಲ ದೇಶಕೂ ಬಂದೇ ಬಿಡ್ತು ಕೊರೊನ ಮಾರಿ ಎಲ್ಲ ಮಾಯಾ ನಾಳೆ ನಾವೂ ಮಾಯಾ ಎಲ್ಲ ಮಾಯಾ ನಾಳೆ ನೀವೂ ಮಾಯಾ BASAVARAJU, A SOLIGA/ADIVASI POET & THEATRE ARTIST FROM YERAKANA GADDE, BR HILLS