In the early spring sunshine of a bustling campus in Chennai, something extraordinary unfolded, not in a lecture hall, nor in a laboratory, but on a stretch of road where the ordinary cycle of academic life met the gentle pulse of the natural world.

A mother deer stepped calmly onto the asphalt, her delicate gaze fixed upon her tiny fawn. With instinct as tender as a human mother’s, she paused to feed her young. A moment that might have passed unnoticed in the wild became a pause in the midst of human activity,........

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