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Seshan Ranganathan

Mar 23 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

@BBC

#ACraneAndAMan
Even a beautiful story about the bond between a Saurus crane and a man, in @BBC hands has to have an anti-Indian headline. bbc.com/news/world-asi…

The story is short and simple:
* Mohammad Arif finds an injured saurus crane in his field & nurses it to good health.

* They bond strongly & even after it recovers it remains with him.

* Wildlife authorities come to know about the bird and take it away.

*"Uttar Pradesh is home to at least 17,000 Sarus cranes, where it is the official "state bird".

"Under Indian law it's illegal for individuals to keep Sarus cranes or even feed them."

@BBC

* "Samir Kumar Sinha, who heads the Sarus Crane Conservation Project at the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), said moving the bird to a sanctuary was the right thing to do."

* It's a great human interest story but Geeta Pandey, the residual @BBC colonialist has

to give it an anti-India twist.

° So the headline "India Officials confiscate crane from the man who saved it"

° Insinuate that the crane is a victims of a spat between Akhilesh Yadav & Yohiji

° Throw dark hints that the crane may have upped and run away.

° Add the Forest Dept. Officials clarification that the crane is alive and well..to leave the reader wondering what might be the truth.

That's BBC!

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