Page 60 - Man Ki Baat Nov 2024 (English)

Reviving Nature’s Harmony

All of you must have seen
In the heart of India, sparrows
sparrows chirping on rooftops
have been more than just tiny
or trees during your childhood.
birds fluttering
Sparrows are known as Kuruvi in
through the sky. They are symbols
Tamil and Malayalam, Pichhuka
of home, community, and
in Telugu and Gubbi in
resilience, woven into the cultural
Kannada. Stories about
sparrows are told in every fabric of the country. The decline
language and culture. Sparrows of the sparrow population is not
play a very important role in just a fleeting curiosity—it’s a
maintaining biodiversity around pressing issue, signaling deeper
us, but today sparrows are environmental shifts
hardly visible in cities. Due to and the challenges of urban
increasing urbanisation, growth. Thus, consistent
sparrows have gone away from conservation efforts are
us. essential to ensure that sparrows
remain more than a nostalgic
-Prime Minister Narendra Modi
(in 'Mann ki Baat' address) memory.

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