UDF alleges role of Kerala Govt. in denying dam entry for MPs
The Hindu
‘Govt. sacrificing Kerala’s interest in Mullaperiyar dispute’
The purported decision of Tamil Nadu not to allow two United Democratic Front (UDF) MPs to visit the Mullaperiyar dam has triggered a political controversy in Kerala.
Opposition MPs N.K. Premachandran of the Revolutionary Socialist Party and Dean Kuriakose of the Congress had sought the permission of the dam authority to inspect the 126-year-old structure given its bearing on the safety of 40 lakh Keralites living downstream. However, the dam authorities denied them permission.
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).