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The Blind watchdog

Bashir, Tawqir (2009) The Blind watchdog. Down To Earth, Vol.18 (7). p. 53. ISSN 0971-8079

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Abstract

A Hindu legend has it that the Gangetic dolphin was once a beautiful princess, called Sukanya. The princess was vain and onced earned the wrath of an ascetic. Sukanya had gone to take a bath in a river when the holy man asked her not to disturb him. The princess continued bathing. The enraged ascetic cursed her to a life in the river. The vain princess was turned into a dolphin, susaka.

Item Type: Articles
Keywords: India, Dolphin, Conservation, Rivers, Ecosystem, Dams, Construction, Nets, Fish Mortality, Mining, Environmental Management
Subjects: Right to Resources
Depositing User: Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited: 01 Feb 2022 04:47
Last Modified: 01 Feb 2022 04:47
URI: http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/10862

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