The Olive Ridley hatchlings at Versova beach last month. File pic

Newspapers around the world documented the appearance of hatchlings from a vulnerable turtle species after they appeared on Versova beach a couple of weeks ago. It has been decades since the turtles were last seen on our shores, and their presence is testimony not just to the power of some Bombayites to affect change, but to the fact that nature can be forgiving even in the face of callousness.