I had written three previous blog-posts on my experience with biodiversity documentation ( All things bright and beautiful ) 1 , some sample photos ( All things great and small) 2 and a recording of a talk I gave to the CMC Vellore Nature Club a few years ago (All things wise and wonderful) 3. Following on with the song by Cecil Frances Alexander, I have named this post after the fourth line of the song:
All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God made them all
In April 2026, I was contacted by Dr. Patta Radhakrishna, a surgical gastroenterologist and Dr. Vidya Mohanram, an anaesthesiologist to speak about my work in biodiversity documentation and research on an online weekly webinar that they had started in October 2020 (during the Covid pandemic) that brought a wide range of topics in medicine to a well-read multidisciplinary audience in India and abroad. I was told that over 275 episodes had been recorded by about 500 faculty on medical, technical and non-technical subjects of interest to a medical audience. Each session starts at 8.00 PM IST on Thursdays, lasts for an hour and is followed by an hour of illuminating discussions. The recordings are uploaded to YouTube and this forum, aptly named as “Marvelous Medicine” has its own website – http://www.marvelousmedicine.in – readers of this blog are invited to explore the excellent talks archived at this site.
When I uploaded the previous post in this series, I was working at the Christian Medical College Vellore and was visiting hospitals all over the country and abroad, along with my wife, Ann. In March 2026, after completing four years there and visiting over 250 hospitals (including several in other countries – Nepal, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malawi, Maldives and Sri Lanka and in the process observing and uploading several thoursand observations!), we moved to Naharlagun in Arunachal Pradesh at the invitation of the Nyishi Baptist Church Council and are presently involved in the process of starting the “Arunachal Christian Hospital” near Tigdo in Papum Pare District. Besides the great opportunities to produce transformational impact by tackling the healthcare needs of this frontier state, we also have the opportunity to explore the wonders of God’s creation in the natural world – the state has the largest unexplored forests in the country. A local nature club (NBCC Nature Club) has been started and we hope that this will lead to greater involvement of local communities in observation, documentation, research, publication, conservation and ecotourism in the years to come.
This talk was given to a group of eminent doctors from India and abroad and moderated by Dr. Puneet Dhar and Dr. Duttaprasad Sawant. Following the talk, there was a lot of interesting discussions, especially from the perspective of medical doctors interested in biodiversity documentation and research.
The talk is available for viewing by clicking on the link below:
References:
The Sparrow's Nest 
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