The Pelican Man and The Elephant Man
Two people I happened to meet while in H.D. Kote...
Manu, who calls himself 'the pelican man', is a naturalist. He has been involved in saving the endangered pelican species in India, and many other such endangered animal and plant species. When I met him he was involved in bringing theatre to the Jenu Kuruba children's school. We even watched a skit that was put up by these kids after a workshop they had with 'the pelican man' and his group.
Surendra Varma, is a person who I call 'the elephant man'. He works in the Ecology Dept. of IISc, Bangalore. He has been studying elephants and human interaction for the past two decades or so. On the last day that we were there, when we were all dead tired after an all nighter, he managed to keep us all glued to his powerpoint presentation till late night... where he shared a lot of information about elephants, the whys and whats of their behaviour, some statistical analyses about them and many anecdotes and trivia about elephants.
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