Tag: br hills
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Goodbye Jadeswamy
“Sir, pls confirm if yellow-throated bulbul is seen near forest IB” This was his last message to me a few days back. Jadeswamy was checking with me if the bird he saw was indeed the bird considered globally threatened and seen only in stony parts of several south Indian hills. He was watching it near his…
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Painting with a broad brush: Stereotyping “tribal” identity
Yet another “tribal” story in a national newspaper. Based on my reading, the story is based on the seizure of a consignment of ghee packets at a forest checkpost by the department. Clearly this indicates that some of the ghee packets under a government scheme are finding ways into private markets for sale. Several reports…
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Of absurd letters and misplaced priorities
It is not too rare to see very bizarre letters. In fact, there have been letters unearthed from over 2000 years ago from the dawn of writing itself often written by people who wanted to complain about services or to authorities. More recent funny letter compilations abound on the Internet, many of them quite lame leave letters supposedly written…
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Birds of BR Hills
If you came for the checklist of birds of BR Hills, directly scroll to end of this post. My journey with the Biligirirangaswamy temple hills (BR Hills) is an old one. It was during my medical school days, nearly 15 years back that I first went to the hills on a then trendy Yamaha RX 100…
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Work at BR Hills!
Vivekananda Girijana Kalyanal Kendra is looking for an MBBS doctor to work at their 20-bedded hospital and community health programme at BR Hills. The doctor will be a part of a community healthcare delivery team in charge of outpatient work and fairly light inpatient work.