Connecting kids with nature
Discovery and Inspiration at Bannerghatta National Park
Enjoyed facilitating this outing for the Socare children.Thankful to Socare and Sunand for connecting me to them for this opportunity. Story of Socare Ind… While commuting to work every day, he (late Mr. Mani) used to pass by the Bangalore Central Jail where he…
Somewhere out there… is the Chandrayaan-3 Rover
Seems like yesterday, the take off from Bangalore… but has been a long journey… A post shared by Nature Kids (@naturekids_in) Watched the amazing historic moment with the local community…
a spectator’s view of Chandrayaan-3
Some fake videos of the Chandrayaan-3 launch are floating around, and can even have a pretty convincing description. One of the factors to discern the actual launch picture/video is the rocket leaving a white cloud trail. View this post on Instagram A post shared…
maths in nature
The binary tree picture is just a forwarded joke referring to computer science terminology… but here’s something more basic… Start with the number 0, 1… add + 1 = 2. 1 + 2 = 3 2 + 3 = 5 Keep adding the previous…
the dark topic of light pollution
(instagram) How much light do we get exposed to after dark, and how does it matter? People all over the world are living under the nighttime glow of artificial light, and it is causing big problems for humans, wildlife, and the environment. ~ National…
a unique nature retreat at Majakali
Majakali is in the northern part of India, where my daughter and me went on a retreat. Though not actually in the Himalayas, it was exciting to know that it was near it, and one may see the peaks in the distance… …depending on…
different leaves from the same tree
All these leaves are from the same tree… A picture with a friend shows the scale of the tree. View this post on Instagram A post…
tiny whirlpools in sand
We may have noticed these common holes in soft sandy patches and walked on. Few might imagine that these tiny holes are actually the engineering effort of some young insects (antlion larvae), at work catching a little hard working engineer – an ant! As…
finding nature
Doing a session on Contemplation of Nature with FoundNature, we were to spend some time with any object of nature in the way the facilitator Ajay Rastogi described. As a practitioner of some silence every day, it resonated with my practice 🙂 Authenticity is…
neighborhood ibis
In this era of iPhones and iPads, watching these birds in the neighborhood (off Kanakapura Road, Bengaluru) was… iBliss! Unlike other ibises in the region it is not very dependent on water and is often found in dry fields a good distance away from…
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