9th Nov.

Went for a long winding trek on the streets, lanes, by-lanes of the town for about 1/1/2 hour. There is a mushroom  growth of small and big houses. The municipal schools have few pupils. Even the rikshaw pullers are sending their children to private schools which have grown in big numbers. I saw kids coming out ,well dressed with neck-ties,from small houses to these schools. I discovered a new fairly well-maintained park in front of the residence of the District Magistrate. I can walk here in the morning. There are not many good parks to walk in.
Ved Prakash , Advocate Digvijai Singh and Advocate Shivji called on. Some electrical repairs were done in the house.

News of the day:"The Amur falcon, a tiny majestic bird from the raptor family is being poached in thousands in North East India. The small raptors arrive in North East India from Siberia en route to their final destination in Southern Africa, stopping briefly in Nagaland where they are poached in huge numbers.

Activists have caught on camera, how the birds are trapped, then the injured birds are kept alive in mosquito nets so they can be exported alive to the customers and international markets.

From cane baskets, the birds are transferred to poles for ease of carrying into villages and towns. Activists who have filmed the massacre say the scale of killing is unprecedented. Conservation groups estimate that a mind-boggling 120,000 to 140,000 birds are being slaughtered in Nagaland every year during their passage through the state." IBN,Live dt 9th Nov. 2012.
Retired to sleep at 9 pm.