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Female gibbon gets a feel of the wild
After elephants and rhinos, it is the turn of a gibbon to be rehabilitated in the wilds.
The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation(CWRC) officials who are handling the primate’s rehabilitation are thrilled that the six-year-old female hoolock gibbon has started sharing food with a male gibbon through the mesh of a cage in a reserve forest in Kaziranga.
A female gibbon, was rescued on February 14, 2003 from Shilonijaan in Golaghat, was raised at CWRC for the last five years before being shifted to Panbari reserve forest in Kaziranga early this year.
It was here that she was introduced to the male gibbon.
“The female is now being introduced to wild fruits and tree leaves that the male prefers in the forest. She needs some more time inside the enclosure before being released into the forest,” a CWRC official said.
Who says bargaining comes only in business deals? You can even negotiate on curfew timings. Especially in Manipur, where everything is possible.
The curfew imposed since March 18 following the killing of 15 migrant workers could be violated both by the law enforcers as well as the citizens.The 9pm to 5am curfew was a damper on the exhilaration of the young boys and girls celebrating Thabal Chongba, a monthlong festival, which literally means dancing in the moonlight.
This is the time when boys and girls dance late into the night in the presence of their parents.
With the curfew imposed after 9pm, the organisers of Thabal Chongba negotiated with the curfew enforcers to continue with the dance till midnight.
In some places where the organisers could not negotiate with the police, the revellers could enjoy dancing only till 9pm. “We requested the police to allow us to dance till midnight when they came to stop the Thabal Chongba dance and they agreed,” said Rashita Devi, a young girl from Imphal West.
It was fun time for children at Garbhanga in Guwahati as they indulged in activities from drawing, cock-fighting to filling water in empty bottles while they sang and danced.
The occasion was the one-day children’s festival organised by Parijat Academy on March 22 at Garbhanga.
The festival was organised to create awareness and promote education among the underprivileged tribal children of Garbhanga area. Garbhanga, 17km from Lokhra Chariali, is a remote tribal area on the Assam-Meghalaya border. The literacy rate here is deplorable. Children, especially girls, are required to do the household chores.
Over 250 children participated in the programme from different villages of the Garbhanga area and Meghalaya. Sixty students from the Parijat Academy walked 23km from their school to Garbhanga with their teachers the previous day.
They stayed for the night at a school in Garbhanga.
