adarshraju: I got tickets for Bob Dylan concert on sat night :p

What am I supposed to reply to this?

A little more of googling for Microhyla sholigari (which deponti and adarshraju photographed at Thattekad recently) gave a lot of interesting info. I was amazed to know that this endemic south indian species of frog was very recently (in 2000) described from BR Hills, and so the name has Soliga in it. Love the name Sholigari :)

One the links says, It is a ( Read more... )

Wishing amoghavarsha a very happy bday.. have a blast :)

Wishing my dear friend piyuroy a very happy birthday... have a blast :)

Many many happy returns of the day to sainath.

Before I crash, Happy birthday to adarshraju.

We had actually planned to go and camp somewhere but thanks to the heavy rains. So we decided to meet up at a friend's place fpr the midnight party. It was great fun since the rest of us were more eager to have the cake than the birthday boy himself. Heavy delicious food at midnight (thanks to our friend' mum) ( Read more... )

His email this morning read...

While you folks were busy slogging your butts off, staring at screens displaying crap, gulping in gallons of coffee, this was what I was upto. For a whole month :)

AND this was the link which he had pasted below

Now lets hope that we get to read some good reports too :)

I have this habit of reading through the lyrics while listening to the song. I had never listened to this song "Sparrow" by Simon and Garfunkel before and today when I digged it out, I loved the lyrics.I thought of asakiyume and deponti while listening to the song and so the dedication :)

Who will love a little Sparrow ( Read more... )

Ryan, Hari and Alok.. the characters took me back to my hostel days. It must have 4 yrs now since I read "Five Point Someone" borrowing it from a friend in the neighbouring room and finishing it off overnight and co-incidentally also had a roomie named Alok. The book made rounds in the hostel for more than a year in the hostel itself and I still ( Read more... )

We woke up for an alarm call and all of you rushed out. Probably it was a Leopard but then with the poor torches that we had, looking for them in the dark was difficult. Anyway in the next 10 mins, we were in the car on our way to BR Hills. I was still half sleepy and was alert only after a hot piping tea at small place on the way. We managed to ( Read more... )