Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli, sage of the forest, died on June 18th, aged 93

Mongabay
Jun 23, 2025, 7:20 pm182 ptsTrendingTop
In the forests of Vidarbha, where he spent most of his adult life, Maruti Chitampalli did not walk so much as listen. While others mapped territory, he absorbed language—of birds, of trees, of the people who lived among them. Over four decades as a forest officer in Maharashtra, he moved not as a bureaucrat…

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