It occurred to me as I walked home this morning... Are human beings the only creatures on Earth who cook their food?


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Ten of us met up for the bird/nature outing at Singanayakanahalli Lake in north Bangalore. Alas, the heavy rain meant that the ground (we had to walk over the bed of the lake) was very squishy and squelchy indeed, and our shoes became caked with mud. I got fed up of clumping along and trying to look for path through the water puddles and small ( Read more... )

Here's shortindiangirl's well-reasoned reply to my query ( Read more... )

As we finished our birding transect and came back towards the backwaters of the Kali river, in the Virje area, I found this figure in the courtyard of a little home.


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We were a nice round dozen this time...


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Obviously, I've been musing on this phenomenon of terrorism. War, in itself, is a form of terrorism; it's always the innocent pawns who get slaughtered while the King and Queen look on from their safe fastnesses.

It's interesting that we use the term "barbarism" to describe terrorists; the

Barbarian according to the Wiki entry, is "a person who ( Read more... )

A response to a somewhat intolerant email on the topic. My response ( Read more... )

A Poem on the Human Anatomy ( Read more... )

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The sadness we feel at the fall of heroes is less to do with their frailty, and more to do with our need to set up heroes in the first place. If we deify humans, they are bound to prove to be only human, after all....!