When Satish ‘Slim’ Sreedharan returned to Kerala after nearly 50 years he felt like a stranger. All those cousins and relatives of whom he had sepia-tinted memories were older, turned frail and some of them were no more. A whole generation in the family was being introduced to him. For Sreedharan it was a strange experience, one he vowed would not happen again. A distinguished field ornithologist, Sreedharan is noted for his ground-breaking work in the jungles of Borneo, where he worked for more three decades. Sreedharan’s parents had moved to Malaysia sometime in the late 1930s. In early 1941, when the WW II was imminent his mother, who was pregnant with him, sailed back...
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