Author: fizala

  • On Seeing City Water Bodies

    On Seeing City Water Bodies

    Fizala Tayebulla Lakes and other water bodies have been an important part of civilisation all around the world. Freshwater sources have been the cardinal for settlements historically, as these settlements required a continuous and dependable source of fresh water for subsistence. Dense network of lake ecosystems were maintained by dedicated group of people and designated…

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  • Living Legacies

    Living Legacies

    Fizala Tayebulla Heritage is a legacy of important tangible and intangible assets passed down through the generations. An individual, a family, a community, or even a city or country could inherit a heritage property. There are three forms of heritage recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): Cultural, Natural and Mixed.…

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  • Report – Campus Bird Count 2021

    Report – Campus Bird Count 2021

    Fizala Tayebulla The Centre for Urban Ecology and Sustainability (CUES) participated in the Campus Bird Count 2021 event for the fifth time in a row since 2017. The Centre organised bird counts in all five campuses of Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) from 12th February to 15th February 2021. 12th February: Lodhi and Rohini Campus 13th…

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  • Harvest of the Pandemic

    Harvest of the Pandemic

    Fizala Tayebulla The pandemic has brought in several structural and value changes in our lives. Some of the changes that have transcended us being physically constraint to our homes are the changes in our lifestyles and values of a ‘safe’ and healthy life (ushering in practices that have a fighting chance at beating Covid-19). We…

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  • Lockdown Effects: Conditioning of Stray Dogs to Vehicular Traffic

    Lockdown Effects: Conditioning of Stray Dogs to Vehicular Traffic

    Fizala Tayebulla Street dogs have become one of the very few animals that us humans could watch and access from our locked-in houses in cities. As humans limited their movement and remained mostly within premises of their homes, commuting in vehicles- a typical urban activity came to a standstill. City roads became unusually quiet and…

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  • Avid Birding in Covid Times: Experience from Guwahati

    Avid Birding in Covid Times: Experience from Guwahati

    Fizala Tayebulla This post is a personal account of birds that I have curated from my “Corona_Birding_Ghy” photo album. I understand that maybe not everyone is crazed about birding as an activity. It is tedious, often accompanied by neck strain from looking upwards through branches of tall trees for long periods (or until one is…

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  • Every story has a Beginning, a Middle and an End

    Every story has a Beginning, a Middle and an End

    Fizala Tayebulla In the following passages, I have tried to briefly describe the crux of human-nature conditions in real-time scenarios of status-quo ante and status-quo, and another one in an hypothetical future that we are yet to shape, hopefully from nothing less than from a standpoint of sweeping, scrupulous review.   In the field that…

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  • Sightings of Lesser Whistling Ducks in the middle of the city amidst Corona lockdown

    Sightings of Lesser Whistling Ducks in the middle of the city amidst Corona lockdown

    Fizala Tayebulla Most of us have hopefully managed to access some secure place for the emergency lockdown brought upon by the Corona virus pandemic. I, for one was fortunately able to travel back home to Guwahati, Assam timely, a few days before the travel ban in India. Taking a while to settle down at home…

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  • A Bird in Hand Worth Protecting

    A Bird in Hand Worth Protecting

    Himanshu Choudhery With an escalating human population, due to high rates of migration from rural to urban areas, cities around the world are becoming very populated and polluted. This influx of people in urban areas has led to an overall reduction in green cover as natural spaces are converted into residential areas to accommodate the…

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  • A Way Towards Nature Education for Young Children

    A Way Towards Nature Education for Young Children

    Fizala Tayebulla The brain-to-body mass ratio in humans is relatively higher in comparison to any other species. This can be seen simply by comparing the total number of neurons of a human brain with that of other species. For instance, while the human brain is composed of 16.3 billion neurons, the number of neurons in…

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