Year: 2008

It’s curious how people who are nothing but voracious consumers for the most part suddenly develop an interest in the environment. Better still, they become experts and spokespeople for ecological issues. Nearly everyone worth their page three partywear is “doing something about the environment” – mostly attending glitterati-infested soirees and…

My mind’s been besieged by ants. I used to watch ants a lot all of the time, but now I’m watching the ground beneath my feet with a new, ever-growing sense of alarm: there just aren’t enough ants. Which is why, last week, when I saw a tattered single file…

One morning at Karanji lake in Mysore, the wife and I took a pedal-boat on a circuit. The birds here let you approach very close. We had intimate encounters with a Grey Heron, a Purple Heron, a Large Cormorant and a Spotbill Duck. These pics taken with our small autofocus…

Last week, I saw a barn owl just outside our apartment complex. It was past 7 and this guy swished by with a ghostly whisper of wings. I waited to see if it would hover, but it just flew up into a dead tree and perched there. In August 2001,…