Zafar Futehally was truly last of
the best that humans had to offer. It is also quite telling that the market media
missed it. A reticent understated man deeply concerned with issues of
Conservation, regularly involving -even when he was in his 90s, on environment
issues of Bangalore. I recall receiving some mails from him just about two
years back. He was a birders delight, with tons of perceptive writings and
valuable observations, ever encouraging youngsters. I had met him few times,
and took a picture of his once (you may visit me at http://iseeebirds.blogspot.in/2011/01/red-breasted-flycatcher-tiny-siberian.html).
Happen to attend a condolence
meeting held in his honour the other day. Zafar Futehally was the last of the
celebrated troika of finest from a family in Ornithology that includes Salim Ali and Humayun
Abdulali. It surely is passing of a generation…
