A Safari Through the World of Ants

April 01, 2023

How many ants are there on Earth? When we were children we often asked such riddles and answered with ridiculous numbers. But today we have a scientific answer. According to […]

Barnacles

March 15, 2023

Many of us may remember that parts of coastal India and Southeast Asia were ravaged by a tsunami in December 2004. A friend was visiting Point Calimere to make some […]

Submitting to Awe in Anejhari

March 01, 2023

It seeps in slowly, the gravitas of David Abram’s choice of words for the tagline of his book, ‘The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World’. […]

A Rainforest in Winter

February 15, 2023

Our bags were hauled over bridges across fern-rimmed brooks, as we huffed up a ridge to a secluded cottage, named after an indigo-black Racket-tailed Drongo painted on the wall. On […]

The Parrots of Karnataka

February 15, 2023

Karnataka is home to five species of parrots of which four are parakeets. Parakeets have long, distinctly pointed tail feathers, whereas parrots have shorter tail feathers that are wider at […]

Sighting the Singalika

February 01, 2023

Singalika – the name echoes around the still forests of Kudremukh National Park. Birdsong fades as I scan the trees, my eyes squinting in the hot sun. The dense leaves […]

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