I was quite thrilled to be invited to speak (with a few photographs and videos) on the topic of "My experiences with birding in St.Louis" at the St. Louis Audubon Society (SLAS)which jcompletes 100 years of existence in 2015.



You can visit their website

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Here's

Mitch Leachman

the Executive Director, addressing the gathering:


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I'd been to a fund-raising event yesterday, by the St.Louis Academy of Sciences:


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There have been two examples, recently, where people had to exclude others ( Read more... )

AM writes ( Read more... )

Through the past week (yes, it is 7 days today since my brother suddenly decided to move on), I have heard two lovely expressions that are very common here ( Read more... )

Attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoeller (1892- 1984) about the inactivity of the German intellectuals during the rise of the Nazis to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group ( Read more... )

When I moved into Bangalore, one of the first things I felt happy about was that I would be learning a new language. I took up my daughter's textbooks and learnt to read and write Kannada. I can now read and write the language, including Kannada numbers ( Read more... )