Ranajit Mitra, popularly known to North Bengal as Khokada, has long been taking the responsibility of implanting nature interest among the more younger generation for almost 04 decades now.
He has always referred to Colonel Edward James "Jim" Corbett as his metor and considers him as one of India's greatest conservators, who could not be understood during his time, but all his words have been proved to be true with time.
He insisted to see his 'Guru' as a part of this blog and hence this article may be considered as the "Tribute to the Guru" and an appeal to the world to save the last bit of nature left by him 'Rudraprayag'.
Siliguri, 25th July, 2012: Queen Elizabeth II
recently celebrated her 60 years of Queenhood. But when was declared the Queen
of United Kingdom, at that moment she was on a tree top in Africa with none
other than the Great JIM CORBETT, who mentions in his diary...’a princess
came and a queen departed...’.
25th July is the birth anniversary of this Great
Naturalist, whom many people remember as a hunter, but he was not one of those
trigger happy men, but to us, the people of India, he will always be remembers
as the one of world’s greatest naturalists, for whom India’s forests were his
first love and life forever.
Corbett, so many years ago realised that the Forests of
India and her treasured wildlife will be in a critical condition. The
politicians, naturalists and scientists of that time failed to understand Jim
Corbett and his philosophy. He had then made his forecast about the loss of
tigers and other invaluable species of this land, about drought and floods...
We still have time to pay our respects to this Great soul
from the core of our heart through the right actions of protecting our last
natural habitat which we still have in this country. We do not want any further
denudation of our forest cover in the name of development like hydel projects,
urbanization etc, after effects of which is unknown to us and our future
generations.
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