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Agony in Diversity |
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Al the children had gone away to collect plant samples, but there was one girl who followed a different trail. As a part of 21st Shodh Yatra in Arku Valley in Vishakapatnam, bio-diversity competitions were organized among children in various villages. This was a village with a difference. After landslide had damaged the original village and killed large number of people, the whole village was relocated to a site, a kilometer away. We were sitting on the steps of a common meeting place, waiting for the children. After a while, children came one after another and started showing the samples of the plants. Their mothers and in some cases fathers also were standing behind, observing the process of quizzing children. Most children had brought similar plants.
After a while it was the turn of Roshni, an eight years old student. She brought 25 leaves, all of different kinds, the only one to do so. We were surprised and intrigued, as to why did Roshni behave so different from all the other children. We wanted to meet her parents. When we asked her to call them, she stood still, with tears in her eyes. We did not understand. Then a lady standing there informed that Roshni had lost her mother in the landslide and her father had abandoned her to marry again and live separately. She was being brought up by her grandparents.
Is that the reason she knew so much about diversity?
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HB19(2): 2, 2008 |
