Scheduled Caste leaders thank Rahul Gandhi for naming Channi as Punjab CM
The Hindu
The meeting is significant in terms of political messaging
Former Congress party president Rahul Gandhi on Friday met a group of Scheduled Caste (SC) leaders, who had come to thank him for appointing the first SC Chief Minister in Punjab.
The meeting is significant in terms of political messaging amid allegations from political rivals that the had been done only with an eye on the Assembly elections.
Aasheesh Pittie says birdwatching is not very unlike hunting, except that nothing is killed. “You track… you want to follow the bird… see it,” he says about this activity that he has pursued for nearly fifty years. Pittie, the editor of the ornithological journal Indian Birds, author of many classic reference books about birds and most recently, a collection of bird essays titled The Living Air: Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching, was speaking at an event organised by the Archives of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).