With 2 wetlands in #TamilNadu now added to list of Ramsar Sites, Anjana Shekar discusses state's history in wetlands conservation & how this status can elevate protection of such biospheres.

Supriya Sahu IAS Tamil Nadu Forest Department Care Earth Trust Tamil Nadu Wetlands Mission
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Letters from A: finding flamingos on the beach anjanashekar.substack.com/p/finding-flam…

Third place | Cotton Fever by Senthil Jaganathan, translated by Anjana Shekar: mozhi.co.in/2023/01/03/cot…

My son, Saha (not aware of the original story by Senthil Jeganathan's mazhaikkan) read in English translated by Anjana Shekar He was just ranting today the pain and anger that he got from Cotton Fever. Mozhi A good indicator of translation - mozhi.co.in/2023/01/03/cot…

Letters from A: On consumption anjanashekar.substack.com/p/on-consumpti…

Material memory on Letters from A anjanashekar.substack.com/p/material-mem…

October tidings on Letters from A anjanashekar.substack.com/p/october-tidi…

Mirroring and some questions on Letters from A anjanashekar.substack.com/p/mirroring-an…

On disappearing on Letters from A anjanashekar.substack.com/p/on-disappear…

1/8. Was Independence the gift of a few Oxbridge elites? As Gandhi put it, not great men, but ‘the people themselves are the cause’ of revolutions. My book The Last Heroes: Footsoldiers of Indian Freedom (Penguin) out in November, looks at 16 such people.
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On rituals and routines on Letters from A anjanashekar.substack.com/p/on-rituals-a…

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The recent electrocution of a 13-year-old boy in Villupuram district, while erecting a flag pole, has exposed a deeper issue - kids in rural area taking up jobs as their families struggle financially due to lockdown.

Hey friends, how about you save some of those clicks for writing on Indian food that is actually, you know, good. A list:

Chennai reported 3 continues days of increasing daily new cases, today at 181 with testing consistently around 24,000. This shows a small sign of increasing trend, continue to follow Covid precautions. Below chart shows Chennai trend for last 12 days.

Tamilnadu Covid cases continue to downtrend.

Tamilnadu:
New cases - 1830
Active cases - 24816
Testing - 134169
Test positive Rate - 1.4%

Chennai:
New cases - 130
Active cases - 1633
Testing - 26353
Test positive Rate - 0.5%

Going to watch #SarpattaParambarai this weekend but its obvious that twitter cant hold it hehe. If any of you thought the film was going to be anything less than spectacular, you probably didn't know pa.ranjith well enough.