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
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
But singlehandedly penning a column for 46 years wasn’t the only string in M. Krishnan’s bow.
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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/
