25-year-old Aliasgar Vohra is not only research scholar in Department of Zoology, MS University of Baroda, he is also a sparrow activist. On the celebration of this Republic Day, Aliasgar, along with his wife, Rukaiya Vohra distributed cardboard boxes and feeder plates for sparrows in Vadodara’s biggest senior living community at Nimeta, Vadodara. This is not the first time Vohra is passionately helping save sparrows from urban extinction in Baroda. Vohra has been distributing housing nests and feeder plates in Vadodara for sparrows since 2013. Aliasgar has had a long-standing love affair with them since he was 18. When he was on holiday in a different city, he noticed that there were sparrows in that city, but the sparrow population has been

Author-Sweta Joshi