I spent half of yesterday (Saturday, 17 Feb '24) organizing our visit to the IISc Campus as part of the Campus Bird Count, just to avoid hassles in securing entry. From the mail thread below, you can see that Sri Kedar Wagh, Convenor, Nature Club, also put in his efforts on our behalf. However, all our efforts were in vain ( Read more... )

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I don't like posting about current events and politics and such, because there are plenty of others who do that much better than I do.

So, not a word about the Twenty20 match, the CET exams tomorrow and the day after, and the earthquake that my daughter felt....

So here's Sri Circle Goddess....

Here's the pretty temple:


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Since so many people liked that photo of the light on the gardens at IISc, here are a few more images....

Here's the light pouring on to the grass in front of the main building:


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The IISc campus is always beautiful to walk in; the tree canopy meets overhead, so even on the hottest of days, one walks through a dim green light.


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chirdeep_shetty (who last posted in Jan 2007 here ),called today, from Bandipur, where he has taken a voluntary two-month assignment as a naturalist, taking a break from his regular software development job ( Read more... )

Very early this morning, sanathreddy, anushsh and I went to IISc campus to do a bit of birding before the meeting we went to have. We spotted only the usual birds, the COUCAL, the WHITE-CHEEKED BARBET, the BULBULS,the INDIAN ROBIN, the ASIAN KOEL, the FLOWERPECKERS, the SCALY-BREASTED MUNIA (though Sanath said he saw a BLACK-HEADED MUNIA as well)the PURPLE SUNBIRDS ( Read more... )

The snail, too, moves;
In a trail of slime,
Wary of feet and hooves,
It moves...but takes its own time.

People often fail
To understand that time, too,
Moves inexorably like the snail...
For the fourth line I found a rhyme,too!


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