Here is a news excerpt from today’s daily :
“A fishing rod, a piano, an African drum and a vintage embroidered chair add to the charm of this cottage room. But it’s only the animal trophies mounted on the walls that give away the fact that Gurney House on Ayarpatta Hill, Nainital, was once the home of Jim Corbett, arguably the world’s best-known hunter-conservationist and author. And on Friday, for the first time since Corbett left India in 1947, his birthday will be celebrated with tales about man-eating tigers in his erstwhile living room .
The event is the brainchild of Nilanjana Dalmia, wife of V N Dalmia of the Dalmia Group, who grew up in Gurney House and later used it as a summer retreat.”
Yes….It is Jim Corbett’s birthday today !
And ….while wishing him a very happy birthday….we wish and hope that our readers would have noted our earlier post …..and we once again urge all nature lovers (including Nilanjana Dalmia) to write to us :
“Do you agree that Corbett National Park needs a change in its Marketing USP ?”
( The USP at present is TIGER SIGHTING….we feel it should be LOVE FOR NATURE/NATURE LOVER’s PARADISE !)