if you love watching birds and butterflies at the botanic garden but wonder what species they are heres a ready reckoner for you birds butterflies and associate plants written by former botanic director himadri sekhar debnath and wildlife expert biswajit roychoudhury introduces you to all of them and more the book released last week lists 83 species of birds 54 butterflies species and 48 associated plants from the lesser whistling duck to the blackrumped flameback it takes the reader on an interesting study of birds and the trees which they nest on while it will make it easier for birdwatchers to try and locate particular species by tracking down the trees the casual visitor too will be able to identify birds when they see them flying around the trees that they prefer there are scores of butterfly researchers who often have to grope in the dark at botanic it will also help them identify species and study them said roychoudhury it will also help the green cause by making people aware of the trees at botanic felt roychoudhury if readers cant find a tree at the park then they can raise an alarmfor the eternal child debi from milwaukee was unaware of it madhumanti from delhi had lined up other appointments since their childhood these ladies like so many other mithus had been part of clts annual festival that brings to fore the eternal child in all of us but the amri fire had skewed up the winter trip down memory lane the tragedy next door had prompted childrens little theatre to cancel the fiveday event initially scheduled around christmas however since it is the 60th annual festival instead of scrapping it altogether the festivity was curtailed to the three days that ended on sunday rhymes on the first day ashok a dance drama by priyadarshini ghosh exclt who has returned from singapore to the city of her childhood and nilasri ganguly martial arts by kajal hazra puppet theatre that had made suresh dutta synonymous with clt but the star of all these activities at aban mahal were children some whove come off the streets some who are specially abled some who will grow upto live in delhi singapore or the usfair sale since the book fair opened days after the release of aparajita tumi many people expected to see sunil gangopadhyays dui nari haate tarabari prominently displayed in the stalls for that had the possibility of increasing the sales of the book and also the footfalls in the theatres but no one in tollygunge seems to have measured the correlation in hollywood at least as soon as a production is announced the sale of the book sky rockets the phenomenon may not have engulfed these shores but litterateur bani bose was assured by director prabhat roy that the increase in the sale of shwet patharer thala would compensate for the modest amount she was given for the filming rights of her novel hopefully that had happened for her