A very enjoyable trip to Gir (even though often fraught wich too much eventfulness for my liking...being slapped on the head by an arrogant guard at the Somnath temple, and nearly missing our flight back to Bangalore because of an incompetent cab driver....made sure I could just about find time to check my email, and not post anything to LJ...but ( Read more... )

Today, it's the birthday of a very dear friend....but since she's in a very high-powered (and therefore busy) job, we met for coffee on Sunday.


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Mahesh Devarajan, his wife Priya, amoghavarsha,amonks, KM and I left as early as we could and drove down to Nandi Hills, intending to get back before noon.

One of the main reasons for our returning much later was this beautiful BLACK-SHOULDERED KITE that kept flying from one telegraph pole to the next, tempting us on to take more photographs...


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KM often keeps saying he has forgotten names of people, places and things...today we were chatting and he was mentioning that he forgot something...and later in the conversation, he said, "I forgot somthing earlier..what was it?"

He even forgot what he forgot...!

This is the small minivet...


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Remember, I had once made this post about the wonderful camouflage of Nature, and used a photo of a bushlark? Well, here's another master of disguise that we spotted today in the Valley School area on our field trip...


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I very, very rarely sight snakes (I can't say "reptiles", having seen so many Agamas, lizards, geckos, crocs, and monitor lizards!) in the wild; probably because a) they disappear in a trice into the undergrowth and b) I have not been "trained" to spot them (I remember being as bad with birds, some months ago!)...but today,Karthik showed us a baby ( Read more... )

The internet erases distances. It brings down the barriers of colour, culture, customs, accents. If you just know English and how to type, you can meet, mind-to-mind, with anyone across the planet. You can get to know the person and not bother about the outside skin. You can get -- and give-- information about anything and everything imaginable. ( Read more... )