HEALTH & ECOLOGY

19 Tue 10.15 A.M

The Folly, Amethyst

Whites Road

Next to Corporation Bank

Royapettah, Chennai 600 014 

                                     Vultures In Vain

Growing up reading books by Kenneth Anderson and Jim Corbett, 18 years old Akshay Bharadwaj, currently doing his 1st year in thesIndian Institute of Science, is a wildlife enthusiast. On behalf of Karnataka’s forest department, Akshay has shot a documentary on the last remaining Vultures in the scenic hills of Ramnagar, which tells us the story about the fast declining vultures, of his home state. In his documentary he has created an awareness on the dramatic effect their extinction would have on our ecological environment.

Having had the good fortune of visiting several forests and plethora of habitats across our country, from traversing the vast expnses of nothingness in the Thar desert to being stranded in thundering rain along the Western Ghats, Akshay’s was a childhood that few could imagine and even fewer could experience.

Come listen to one of our youngest speakers Akshay, as he shares the tales of the mystic and intriguing forests, about his struggles and experiences and most of all his sustained motivation at this early age.