Tribals start clearing bushes
The Hindu
They urge government to build road to their remote villages
The death of a pregnant young woman at Yedurumilli village of Annavaram panchayat of Chintapalli mandal on Monday night has once again brought to the fore the travails of the tribal people due to lack of road connectivity.
Divya, a 27-year-old victim, gave birth to a healthy baby at her home, but died due to heavy bleeding a little while later, leaving her child without a mother. The absence of a road to her village came in the way of the ‘108 Emergency Ambulance’ from shifting her to a hospital, which could have saved her life.
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).