Rowing | Rough waters await Arvind, Arjun
The Hindu
Duo will be rowing in the lightweight double sculls at Tokyo
Arvind Singh (Uttar Pradesh) and Arjun Lal Jat (Rajasthan) will face the biggest challenge of countering the rough waters in the lightweight double sculls category in rowing at the Tokyo Olympics. Born to farmers, the two were handpicked by the chief national coach Ismail Baig only two years ago to compete in double sculls. Arvind says the first target when he started rowing was to clinch the Asian Games gold in 2018.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
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.