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Since I was not able to go for the inaugurual (Feb '18) monthly bird survey, I went to participate in the March survey ( Read more... )

I first met

Prasad Natarajan in 2014, when we attended a wildlife volunteer training program together. Even then, in the beautiful environs of Kudremukh,Karnataka, I always found him with a sketchpad and a pencil in his hands ( Read more... )

The third week of August ended with a wildlife event and a wildlife/conservation festival that I thoroughly enjoyed.

The first was
the screening of "Cobra King",

a documentary on the

King Cobra

made by

Sandesh Kadur of

Felis Creations

It was

Gowrishankar, of

Kalinga Centre for Rainforest Ecology narrating the life cycle of ( Read more... )

One of the results of building flyovers to ease traffic in our city is that the spaces underneath them are often a kind of wasteland. In an effort to address this,

Jaaga DNA

the design arm of Jaaga, co-ordinated with

Brihat Bengaluru Mahangara Palike (BBMP) to create art in the spaces under the Hebbal flyover, whereby the common citizen was ( Read more... )

When Vaibhav called me to come and guide the residents of a gated community on a bird walk in Madivala kere, I was very happy to do so. So off we went to the kere at 4pm. I first got a photo of him with the bird board that

Brickwork India had put up. The photos of the waterfowl are all by him and Dr Sanjeev Managoli, a paediatrician who manages ( Read more... )

The

Campus Bird Count (CBC)

is part of the

Great Backyard Bird Count where on any of 4 days this year (12,13,14,15 Feb 2016), bird counts could be conducted at various educational institutions. When I was invited by Vidhya Sundar and Selvarajan Rajeshwaran, to conduct the bird count at IIM-Bangalore, I accepted with alacrity, as birders ( Read more... )

I’d responded to a request from JaagaDNA (one of the 3 arms of

Jaaga to photo-document the process of creating silhouettes so that citizens could claim the public space under the flyovers that dot our city ( Read more... )

Every year, I feel touched and happy that many people would like to go with me, as a single group, to take part in the annual Bangalore Bird "Race". Last year, we were 34, this year, the number was less, but still large enough to merit a lot of planning ( Read more... )

On Saturday the 18th April, 2015, my friend and I decided that the "bandh" had died down, and we went to the Bangalore Fort to attend a photo exhibition,


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