All,
Through the agency of the yahoo group "*bngbirds*" I learnt of the work
of Madhaviah Krishnan, who wrote a nature column in "The Statesman" for 46
years.
This is an excerpt from my recent post at *The Northern Myth* on his work,
including a short piece on the Shikra, a small accipiter.
"From time to time you stumble across stories that deserve a wider
audience, not that this little blog would carry much weight in the
sub-continent from where this story comes.
Earlier today a post on the *Bangalore Birds* internet group sparked my
interest in the life and work of Madhaviah Krishnan, an Indian journalist
who for a remarkable 46 years wrote a column for *The Statesman of
Calcutta<http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php>
*called ‘*Country
Notebook*.<http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?searchword=M+.+Krishnan&ordering=&searchphrase=all&Itemid=72&option=com_search>
‘
I’ve had a look at a few of his columns and they compare more than
favourably to that other long-lived exemplar of nature writing, *The
Guardian’*s *Country
Diary<http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/series/country-diary>
*, which has run – albeit with many different writers – for at least 100
years.
But singlehandedly penning a column for 46 years wasn’t the only string in
M. Krishnan’s bow.
...
Here is one of his pieces on the Shikra, a small raptor that was
republished in*The Statesman* last December. It was first published on 8
February 1953 in*The Sunday Statesman*. For mine it is as fine a pice of
nature writing as you’ll find."
You can read the rest of the piece here:
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/northern/2013/04/01/bird-of-the-week-m-krishnans-thuggery-in-the-treetops/
--
Bob Gosford
Crikey.com
The Northern Myth blog
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