I recall seeing this aged lady with a backpack in the Delhi airport lounge. We happened to chat and she said she was backpacking around solo in India for 6 months, and she does that every year in some or the other country. I asked her her profession… and didn’t expect such a simple, down…
This was an amazing sight… it looked like a snake at first sight, but then it was pretty strange… After a quick search based on a wild guess, it turned out to be larvae migrating, possibly some kind of a gnat larvae. But why are these larvae moving like this? You might guess that it…
After the main Turahalli Forest is closed for public, we took this opportunity to explore the Tree Park opposite to it. Kudos to the Karnataka Forest Dept (KFD) who took a great initiative in rejuvenating this park planting thousands (looks like an exaggeration, but yeah, thousands of new saplings. They welcome any friends free who…
[14-Aug-2002] On the afternoon of day we were to leave, when I told my colleagues where I was planning to go, they asked me how I was going. Then they created confusion about why we were going via Coimbatore when the route over Mysore-Ooty was much simpler, and started listing out all the options. I…
Looked like lantana but was actually different… Asclepias, Mexican Milkweedit’s called Arisina Kumkuma in Kannada, beautifully descriptive name!~ Deepa Mohan (naturalist, writer, photographer, birder, …….)
