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  • Of babbers & bulbuls: BR Hills birds at the intersections of Biology Anthropology and Geography

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    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…

  • Open letter to President Kovind

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    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…

  • Social embellish

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    Whose son you are Whose you’re not Daughter not by any Coupling double Xs The neighbourhood, The house the hand that rocked the cradle the hand that didn’t love that wasn’t The unfair social embellish Over one’s random gene bounty For one brings luck For another just muck

  • Corona Maari/ಕೊರೊನ ಮಾರಿ

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    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

  • Merit, privilege & public health/policy

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    Over the past several years, watching raging social media debates and the shaping of merit in public discourse in India spurred this editorial on merit in public health/policy that appeared in BMJ Global Health as an editorial on August 6, 2021. Many thanks to Seye Abimbola, the journal’s Editor-in-Chief for his comments. As noted in…