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 ...
C’est La Vie!
We received an invitation to attend a wedding in November 2019. It was not just 'any' wedding. For one, it was to be held in Goa. That in itself is ...
Seychelles
Gondwana or Gondwanaland was a supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Jurassic (about 180 million ...