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Graffiti herald the coming of civic polls in rural areas in Tirunelveli
The Hindu
The neatly painted walls around the houses of suburban areas and the mud walls of thatched houses of rural areas that remained inrtact during the recently held Assembly and Parliamentary polls are bei
The neatly painted walls around the houses of suburban areas and the mud walls of thatched houses of rural areas that remained inrtact during the recently held Assembly and Parliamentary polls are being defaced for coming rural local bodyelection, interestingly with the permission of property owners.
Candidates have their election symbols drawn on walls in suburban and rural areas in a bid to bring them close to the hearts of voters.
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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.