Salim Ali

It was during this time and because it wasn't possible to spot tigers easily, that Ketkar discovered bird watching. "This was a time before Facebook and I used to post all my pictures on Orkut," the 36-year-old recalls, adding that through it, he began meeting more people from the birding community and his hobby grew.

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Amey Ketkar

Tomorrow, Ketkar, who runs a small venture of manufacturing and wholesaling food products, will be taking participants through restricted areas of Sanjay Gandhi National Park (they have sought special permissions from the forest department for this), beginning with a talk to acquaint attendees with the basics of birding and will conclude the trail with a revisionary lecture. "Since it's a forest, the group has to be constrained to not more than twenty," he shares, adding that it is important to be silent and pay attention to the calls because spottings depend on luck. It sure sounds like something Dr Ali would have liked to sign up for.

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