Visakhapatnam: E. Santharam has officially assumed charge of additional divisional railway manager for the Waltair Division of East Coast Railway on Saturday. Throughout his career, Santharam has contributed to numerous key track maintenance and construction projects across multiple divisions. His previous roles span significant positions in the South Eastern Railway, East Coast Railway, and South Central Railway. Notably, he served …
Visakhapatnam: E. Santharam has officially assumed the role of Additional Divisional Railway Manager for the Waltair Division of East Coast Railway on Saturday. Throughout his career, Santharam has contributed to numerous key track maintenance and construction projects across multiple divisions. His previous roles span significant positions in the South Eastern Railway, East Coast Railway, and South Central Railway. Notably, he …
Humans are uniquely privileged to act juvenile throughout their lifetime, hanging forever on their parents’ coattails. When I bring this up in a rambling conversation about recent bird sightings, with ornithologist V Santharam, he observes: “Among the resident waterbirds in these parts, painted storks breed a little later, starting in early-January and going on till April-May. It may probably be …
The male Asian koel’s pleading koo-oo is the avian world’s answer to Cliff Richard’s Ocean Deep. Now, the more challenging thing to do would be rubbing eyeballs with the koel’s cousin — the elusive blue-faced malkoha, also a resident species in Chennai. Endemic to peninsular India and Sri Lanka, the blue-faced malkoha’s love story also unfolds between March and August, …
The twenty-first century family is divided at the dining table, parents separated from children by the contents of their individual Swiggy orders. At Point Calimere and Pulicat, there are occasional sightings of one or two Eurasian Oystercatchers,” elaborates Balachandran. The one that was pecked at — the 1968 study “The feeding behaviour of the oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus ” by M. …
