Notes from a Wild Farm

December 01, 2022

Back in February 2018, we turned custodians to a little patch of arid land in the plains of Mysuru. We named it Navilu Kaadu, an ode to the profusion of […]

Hide and Seek in Hampi

December 01, 2022

After having lived for almost a decade in Karnataka – and having spent some of those years teaching middle school history – I finally made it to the UNESCO World […]

Net-casting Spiders

November 15, 2022

Spiders that existed about 300 million years ago were presumed to use silk to safeguard their retreats and to build egg casings. Over the next 100 million years, spiders evolved. […]

Argiope Months

November 01, 2022

The year 2020 brought along a new set of challenges as we had to hunker down and avoid an invisible enemy. This meant a lot of time spent at home, […]

House Centipede

October 15, 2022

Moving at a great speed has its own disadvantages; especially in the dark and more so, if you have one too many legs! There is a good chance that you […]

Chilakanahatti Palmyra Reserve Forest

October 15, 2022

If you want to listen to the twitter of birds – the chirp of sparrows, cuckoo of cuckoos, caw of crows, screech of parakeets – Chilakanahatti Palmyra Reserve Forest, Karnataka, […]

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