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Born on 12 November 1896, Salim Ali scraped through high school. He barely passed the matriculation exam of the Bombay University and dropped out of St. Xavier’s College in his first year.
What attracted the innate scientist in him was the forest that surrounded his family’s tungsten mines in erstwhile Burma.
Having honed his skills in the forests and made connections with notable scientists at the Forest Service in Burma, Ali returned to India in 1917, with an abandoned university degree and eyes full of dreams.
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125th birth anniversary of the "Bird Man" of India - the incomparable Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali. More than a hundred years ago, when the term "ornithology" meant little to his countrymen, #SalimAli made it into a career and way of life (1/8)
Sálim Ali simultaneously studied commercial law & accountancy at Davar's College of Commerce in the morning & zoology at St. Xavier's College, Bombay in the afternoon - such was his passion & zeal (2/8)
The systematic study of birds in India owes a lot to this magnificent man. Not only that, after independence, when the Bombay Natural History Museum struggled for funds, Sálim Ali wrote to PM Nehru & managed to secure govt. support (3/8)
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