A window to the world of birds

Filled with wonder, filled with hues

Rainbow sights delight our eyes

With the lovely avian views.



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Poem recited by Vaishnavi Sharma, written by Satish Srijan

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Kavya's learning of the Hindi alphabet is going well; she needs to learn all the letters before she starts school in India ( Read more... )

Ramesh Agarwal wrote ( Read more... )

My 7-year-old grand-daughter (Oh, yes, this is a boast post) seems to have a turn for multilingual puns. When her father worked for long periods in the basement, she said, "Why call him Appa? We should call him Downpa!". To her younger brother's constantly saying "No", her respsonse was, "We should call him Noah." When they returned from Home Depot ( Read more... )

Plays that I go to watch generally seem to be either serious or entertaining and there seems hardly any overlap between both genres. However, "Dekh Behen (2)", staged by Akvarious Productions, seemed to span both types of drama effectively...and effortlessly ( Read more... )

Playwright, Manav Kaul (writer ( Read more... )

There are some plays to which I go with a "clean slate"...that is, I know nothing about the play except perhaps the brief sentences on the blurbs; but there are times when I get to know quite a lot about the play, the history of its evolution, and the group performing it. So I went to watch "The Verdict", staged by Akvarious Productions with quite ( Read more... )

Driving in the Sahayadri hills, in the monsoon.

The rain comes down in torrents. The clouds turn into a gray mist, which wraps its miasma on the road. I drive the car past roaring waterfalls, which have gathered strength with the downpours. The windshield feels as if it's made of ground glass.

The tail lights of the cars ahead wink redly.

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1727 (1) K2 Hindi puppet show, Blr, 230822

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1729 (2) K2 Hindi puppet show, Blr, 230822

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