Pia Sethi

Ecologist. Eternal student. Passionate about the North East. Dabbles with writing. Draws occasionally. Goes birding and reads, often.

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A fascinating territorial face off between pairs of Yellow-eyed babblers at Bhondsi, Haryana. I couldn’t help noticing how they rather politely bowed to each other as if they had taken lessons in etiquette, despite the intensity of the argument ! #birdsaturday #birdnerd

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@fatal_sm AI

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@yousef_ki1 Such horror and evil

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@Palestinedaily1 Oh god.

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@rakhitripathi The holocaust of the 21 century perpetuated by Neo Nazis. In the last century the world rallied to end the genocide. In this one, countries are complicit in the brutality. Humanity is dead.

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It took its own sweet time, but my work on swidden transformations in Arunachal, is now out as a paper in #HumanEcology. Grateful to Dr. Stephen Leisz at CSU for his support in converting my PhD chapter as a paper. Fellow Arunachal watcher Chintan was also part of the paper (1/7)

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@GoldingBF Your forefathers invented colonialism and stripped the wealth of nations like India. If they hadn’t, in all probability your grandfather would have been desperate to immigrate to India! Support cultural plurality.

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@kennardmatt @liamcunningham1 Brave people, even when their livelihoods might be impacted. Salute

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@RahulSeeker Why do people feel compelled to explain their caste or identity or whatever. It shouldn’t matter. Period.

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@Daisy1158 @abcnews Not hippies. These are traditional India footwear.

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@abcnews @bhattburhan02 Seriously, the kohlapuris i grew up with.

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@DalrympleWill Where do we get to see it?

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@danielledsouzag Of course people use spoons or forks or knives if they choose to. But that doesn’t mean that most of us don’t use our hands as well. Personally, I think biryani tastes far better that way than with a spoon.

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@Bidnurmathshiv https://t.co/aExPpyfb4g

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@Bidnurmathshiv https://t.co/b0ILIwDwE2

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@Bidnurmathshiv @grok Please change your commentary on the video too then. It’s an amazing video if you get the facts correct.

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@Bidnurmathshiv @grok https://t.co/b0ILIwDwE2

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@Bidnurmathshiv @grok https://t.co/aExPpyfb4g

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@Bidnurmathshiv Pls change the write up. It’s misleading

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@Bidnurmathshiv This is incorrect. After hatching the young of hornbills require protein. Here a male hornbill is carrying food he’s caught ( young barbets) which he hands over to the female ( who is sealed into a hole) to feed to their young. Lovely video though

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@Bidnurmathshiv During breeding the female seals herself into a hole with only a slit through which the male passes food. And protein is essential for the young after hatching. Nature as Tennyson said, is red in tooth and claw.