When it comes to Indian wildlife, the one name that automatically comes to most minds is 'tiger'. I consider myself a very passionate, though ...
Mishmi
In February 2019 a couple of birders and I did an amazing, 1500Km long birding trip to the North East of India. Covering the States of Assam and ...
Greater Nicobar
We arrived at Port Blair in the Andamans on the 9th of March 2021. The original plan was to spend a couple of days of birding in the Andamans ...
…All Creatures Great and Small…
Calangute, Goa. January, 2021. A tiny common pierrot butterfly resting on a yellow trumpet reminds me of the opening lines of a poem we were ...
20Twenty Snapshots
Wow! If ever there was a year that demanded to be in contention for the 'Mother of All Years' award...! For me personally, it began ordinarily ...
Visitors
I have a bird feeder outside our bedroom of our 21st storey apartment. It's a simple plastic tray I fixed over a year ago to the railing of the ...
The Art of Print
How many of us have reached for that dusty shoebox in the attic with old photographs only to find that the contents had faded far beyond the memories ...
Desert National Park, Rajasthan
Shortly after we confirmed our flight bookings to be in Goa at the beginning of March 2020, a fellow birder called to ask if I'd be interested in ...
The Art of Illusion for Dummies
I have recently taken to painting. I've done the occasional canvas before but over the last couple of months the needle had crept - and stuck - in the ...
Let’s Go Fly a Kite!
14 January is celebrated in India as Makar Sankranti. It's an ancient Hindu festival dedicated to the deity Surya (the sun) and signifies the end of ...