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Focus Bengaluru: Where problems outnumber solutions
The Hindu
The Focus Bengaluru series shines a light on the major infrastructural issues affecting the city and how recent governments have dealt with them.
Elections come and elections go, but government after government has struggled to tackle issues that afflict civic infrastructure in Bengaluru, which continues to grow exponentially as India’s IT hub. Ahead of the Karnataka Assembly polls 2023, the Focus Bengaluru series shines a light on the major infrastructural issues affecting the city and how recent governments have dealt with them.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.