I grew up with my mother buying and reading a lot of Tamizh magazines.
Even then, I could make out the differences in content (though I was not an avid reader of Tamizh) between the more serious content of magazines like Amudasurabhi,Kalaimagal, or Kalki, and the more populist stories and "thuNukkus" (trivia, and jokes) of magazines like Ananda ( Read more... )

I was looking at a Facebook post, made by Viju JB,of a very old photograph, of a couple, taken at their wedding. This suddenly put me in mind of an old English magazine that was very much a part of our lives...the

Illustrated Weekly of India. The subject title is because we had a Marwari newspaper/magazine agent, who would come regularly to our ( Read more... )

Anno Domini is not inimical to birding; indeed, it's a great hobby for the silver years.

here

is the article I wrote for

Silver Talkies

An e-magazine for seniors.

Here is my post about the afternoon

That's a local saying, gently ribbing anyone who is getting their names in the news or talked about...it's literally come true for me!

I always knew they'd run out of people to write about and would arrive at me...

click here for a nice write-up about me...nice to be on the other end of a write up, for a change! Shweta Singh has done a good job ( Read more... )

click here

for the article about Survival and Scaly-breasted Munias.

An e-magazine has a schedule of payment whereby, if someone contributes, they will pay on the 5th (or whatever date) of the following month. This is already not a very contributor-friendly practice, because it could mean anything up to 4 weeks of delay in payment. But very well, contributors accept this ( Read more... )

click here

to read my article on the efforts at Daroji, Karnataka. The photos are mine (to use a terrible pun!)

This

is The Alternative.

this

is my first article for them. Hope it's the first of many!

A thread on a mailing list to which I belong, started talking about old Readers' Digest, and of course, I fell to reminiscing (why does one have to fall to think back? Can't one maintain one's balance ( Read more... )