How would you describe the speaker ? Gives examples from the text . (from the Story 'Wildlife in a city pond' )
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Wildlife in a City Pond
October 01, 2014
Lakes, wetlands and ponds are the collection pools of freshwater. Rain is their primary source and is responsible for depositing most of the freshwater on planet Earth. Surprisingly, all the freshwater sources put together; glaciers, icecaps, icebergs, rivers, groundwater, along with lakes, wetlands and ponds, form just about 3% of all of Earth’s water. Further, it is a small portion of this freshwater that is consumable or drinkable for the entire world’s population of close to 7 billion people!
While these freshwater sources seem to already project a stunning impression, it doesn’t stop just there. These wetlands are like the lifeline of any region. They help restore and maintain the groundwater levels and water tables. It is the severe concretization, unchecked population growth and overexploitation of resources by man that has been directly affecting groundwater levels, especially in urban areas. Despite that, lakes and ponds act like oases of calm and stillness, amidst any busy bustling city. And within this stillness, they create a magical ecosystem of flora and fauna. The life they hoard, and the haven they create for a diversity of life forms is quite a marvel.
Thanks to all the wetland bird watching trips, nature walks, wetland projects and lake surveys I have been a part of over the past few years, a fondness to wetlands has grown on me. It was in October 2013 when a phone conversation with Mala Kumar, the editor of Pratham Books, sprang an unexpected discussion about a children’s storybook that involved three of my favourite elements – rain, lakes and wildlife! However, I had never worked on a children’s storybook illustration ever before. Bundled with a lot of apprehension, anxiety, excitement and eagerness, I decided to wake up to the new challenge that was thrown my way. I was more than happy to be illustrating a story authored by Ashish Kothari, who is well known amongst the environment and conservation circles, and is the reason behind ‘Kalpavriksh’, an environmental group in Pune.
Soon, the story was followed up with a pagination, which helped me compose each page with the required story elements. The author, Ashish Kothari, beautifully narrates in the story, his move into a new home in Pune; a little pond that his balcony overlooked and the exciting transformation the monsoons bought in along with the incredible variety of birdlife, insects, amphibians, mammals and reptiles that began to inhabit the little ecosystem. He continues to talk about how the lake was suddenly threatened by urban development, and how people from the neighbourhood came together to save that mini-sanctuary.
I started work with key sketches for each of the pages and a couple of coloured plates to decide the style; soon there was a go ahead. Juggling with another project at hand, I probably took about two whole months to finish all the 15 page illustrations for the book. The artworks were couriered off to Delhi to scan. The text was inlayed within the art and in a few weeks, the .pdf version of the book was shared for final edits. At the same time, translations in five other languages – Kannada, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Urdu were underway.
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