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 […]
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, […]
The Tale of a Birding Trail: Part 2
July 15, 2021
This is the second of a two-part series. Read Part 1 here. Our Christmas-New Year birding tour in Dec 2020 had started from Bengaluru, with pit-stops along the way […]
The Verdant Splendour of Daroji
November 15, 2020
The bears panted in the hot sun. The afternoon air was thick and humid, sticky with discomfort. Yet the hours passed unheeded. Three Sloth Bears lumbered on the rocky slope, […]
Hampi Uninterrupted
September 15, 2019
A nomadic herder ambling along a sun-soaked dusty track, with hundreds of unhurried sheep; Villages juxtaposed with monuments carved out of stone; Hordes of boys waiting patiently for fish to […]
Tungabhadra Dam: a paradise for birds
July 01, 2018
The long stretches of paddy fields in Hospet, Gangavathi, Bellary, Siruguppa and Sindhanur taluks in Bellary, Koppal and Raichur districts indicate the change that the Tungabhadra Dam brought to the […]
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