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Nature’s Layers Unravelled – Encounters with birds, beasts, and relatives

Category: Le Question

Le Question: What did God do?

Le Question: What did God do?

Sahastra RashmiMay 10, 2012May 14, 2012

When a mundane classroom question raises questions about God and the universe Shashwat : The early crustaceans gave way to archosaurs and then to Dinosaurs. Me : Yes, I guess so. Shashwat : They in turn gave way to reptiles and mammals. Me : Yes, seems to be the case…

Le Question: What colour is the eye of the Sarus?

Green OgreSeptember 27, 2011May 1, 2012

Seeing eye to eye with the Sarus Crane evokes a host of questions and the answers aren’t exactly simpleShashwat and I were driving along a small arterial road in Rae Bareli, checking out the pairs of Sarus Crane (Grus antigone) among the paddy fields on either side. It was the…

Le Question: Did Indians do nothing but celebrate festivals?

Sahastra RashmiAugust 23, 2011June 9, 2015

A tree may be our  primary connection with the universe — but it will take us all our lives to acknowledge it The Ficus virens that outgrew the shrine Shashwat: Haven’t the Americans built big cities, warships, fighter jets and so on?  Me:  I guess so. Shashwat And the Germans…

Le Question: Will you get me a new globe?

Sahastra RashmiNovember 3, 2010May 1, 2012

For his seventh birthday I gifted Shashwat a globe. It met a long-standing demand and soon enough he had charted the oceans, seas, continents, polar ice caps (the great melt, breaking ice shelf), the Pacific Ring of Fire (volcanoes), Polynesia (extinct flightless birds), Madagascar (the island and the movie), the…

Le Question: What happened to the Sidewinder?

Le Question: What happened to the Sidewinder?

Sahastra RashmiSeptember 20, 2010June 16, 2013

The Sidewinder is a rattlesnake that has adapted to life in the desert with unique sinusoidal-diagonal locomotion that enables it to negotiate smooth sand dunes with ease   This post concerns a certain question asked after a storytelling session at my son’s school, though this could be any child’s question…

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