Nagpur

pleasure.

So Rohit, how did it start for you? It started in Nagpur, where I grew up.

And this was when I was in my 11th standard.

I was a high school student.

So during that time, we were, you know, out birdwatching.

We had a group of like-minded school and college students with whom we founded like a semi-formal nature club.

And because there were no wildlife rescuers in Nagpur at that time, we also started doubling up as wildlife rescuers.

And that's when we got a bat as a rescue for the first time.

a gentleman rewarded a young lady by an absurdly small present she pretended to be offended and as she upbraided him her eyebrows became extremely oblique with the forehead properly wrinkled another young lady and a youth both in the highest spirits were equally talking together with extraordinary rapidity and i noticed that as often as the young lady was beaten and could not get out her words fast enough her eyebrows went obliquely upwards and rectangular furrows were formed on her forehead she thus each time hoisted a flag of distress and this she did half a dozen times in the course of a few minutes i made no remark on the subject but on a subsequent occasion i asked her to act on her grief muscles another girl who was present and who could do so voluntarily showing her what was intended she tried repeatedly but utterly failed yet so slight a cause of distress as not being able to talk quickly enough sufficed to bring these muscles over and over again into energetic action the expression of grief due to the contraction of the grief muscles is by no means confined to europeans but appears to be common to all the races of mankind i have at least received trustworthy accounts in regard to hindus dangars one of the aboriginal hill tribes of india and therefore belonging to a quite distinct race from the hindus malays negroes and australians with respect to the latter two observers answered my query in the affirmative but entered into no details mr taplin however appends to my descriptive remarks the words this is exact with respect to negroes the lady who told me of fra angelica's picture saw a negro towing a boat on the nile and as he encountered an obstruction she observed his grief muscles in strong action with the middle of the forehead well wrinkled mr gage watched a malay man in malacca with the corners of his mouth much depressed the eyebrows oblique with deep short grooves on the forehead this expression lasted for a very short time and mr gage remarks it was a strange one very much like a person about to cry at some great loss In India, Mr. H. Erskine found that the natives were familiar with this expression, and Mr. J. Scott of the Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, has obligingly sent me a full description of two cases.

He observed, during some time, himself unseen, a very young Dhanar woman from Nagpur, the wife of one of the gardeners.

and he distinctly saw the eyebrows raised at the inner corners the eyelids drooping the forehead wrinkled in the middle the mouth slightly open with the corners much depressed he then came from behind a screen of plants and spoke to the poor woman who started burst into a bitter flood of tears and besought him to cure her baby the second case was that of a hindustanic man who from illness and poverty was compelled to sell his favorite goat after receiving the money he repeatedly looked at the money in his hand and then at the goat as if doubting whether he would not return it he went to the goat which was tied up ready to be led away and the animal reared up and licked his hands his eyes then wavered from side to side his mouth was partially closed with the corners very decidedly depressed at last the poor man seemed to make up his mind that he must part with his goat and then as mr scott saw the eyebrows became slightly oblique with the characteristic puckering or swelling at the inner ends but the wrinkles on the forehead were not present the man stood thus for a minute then giving a deep sigh burst into tears raised up his two hands blessed the goat turned round and without looking again went away End of section 13.