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Tangents
Rostratula benghalensis or Greater Painted Snipe, Bangladesh. Photo: Ihtisham kabir
In 1758, the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus introduced a naming system for living organisms. It was standardized by scientists worldwide, giving us scientific names for species, The Linnaean system arose from the need to uniquely identify each species and categorize or classify living beings into groups. The common name of a bird may change from country to country, but its Linnaean name remains the same. Thus, a Black-necked Stork in Bangladesh is a Jabiru in Australia but a Jabiru in Brazil is an entirely different bird. There is no confusion over their Linnaean names, however. The Black-necked Stork is Ephippyorhinchus asiatica whereas the (Brazilian) Jabiru is Jabiru mycteria – and that holds true everywhere.
The walk from Ballia to Manikganj at the time was also quite comfortable because all the villages had age-old trees especially fig, banyan, tamarind, silk cotton, mango and
kalo jaam trees as well as bamboo clumps, jute and paddy fields. Along the bridle paths, horse-driven cart tracks and aisles of the fields we passed on those journeys, I would often see jackals, mongooses and sometimes
bagdash or civets. There was, possibly, not a single moment that passed when I did not see or hear flocks of birds, or hear the melodies of koels, cuckoos, bulbuls, mynas, shrikes, drongos, leafbirds and others.
A century of dependency
Foreign intervention did not come to an end with the 1979 revolution. No, as shown by Yassamine Mather, Iran’s Islamic rulers are more than willing to do the bidding of US-controlled international institutions
At the end of World War I the British empire was forced to assess the situation in the Middle East, given the dramatic changes in the international order: the fall of the German and Ottoman empires, the overthrow of the Russian tsar and the coming to power of the Bolsheviks had all played their part in destroying the balance of power in the region - especially in countries such as Iran, whose territory had been contested by British, Russian, German and Ottoman forces.
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