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

Tag: nature

Reclaiming the Nature Fix – In Pursuit of Biophilia

Reclaiming the Nature Fix – In Pursuit of Biophilia

Bijoy VenugopalSeptember 11, 2024December 28, 2024

The human craving for a “Nature Fix” is an ancient instinct blunted by generations of abuse. Biophilia is the word for it…

Wild Wallonia – A short walk in the Ardennes

Wild Wallonia – A short walk in the Ardennes

Anand YegnaswamiJuly 30, 2024July 30, 2024

Walking in Wallonia, in the French-speaking region of southern Belgium, offers an adventure through lush forests, historical ruins, and picturesque meadows, revealing its natural beauty and rich history

The night the moon blushed red

The night the moon blushed red

Sandeep SomasekharanJanuary 24, 2019January 24, 2019

It was a cold, windy night on the coast of North Carolina. But there was a celestial event that brought one determined photographer out to gaze skyward – the blood moon!

Watching Butterflies – Field Lessons from Rishi Valley

Watching Butterflies – Field Lessons from Rishi Valley

Bijoy VenugopalJanuary 20, 2018January 24, 2018

In Rishi Valley, where trees and rocks are teachers, watching butterflies is a highly enjoyable part of the education. Here are field notes from wandering around the school grounds spotting butterflies on the last morning of 2017.

Rewind: Notes from a birding walk at Karnala Bird Sanctuary with BNHS on Dr Salim Ali’s birthday

Rewind: Notes from a birding walk at Karnala Bird Sanctuary with BNHS on Dr Salim Ali’s birthday

Anand YegnaswamiJanuary 4, 2018January 4, 2018

Notes on sightings from a birding walk at Karnala Bird Sanctuary with BNHS on Dr Salim Ali’s birthday

Cary Glen – Images of a lovely North Carolina lake

Cary Glen – Images of a lovely North Carolina lake

Sandeep SomasekharanJanuary 27, 2016January 26, 2016

Cary Glen in North Carolina has little cosmic significance. It is a little lake in a little town. But nature thrives here, and it provides a much-needed escape from life’s machinations

Life Around Black-Eyed Susan

Life Around Black-Eyed Susan

Nagesh ManayJune 2, 2015January 31, 2024

‘Stop and smell the roses,’ they say. But they are not talking about the garden. And when they talk about the garden, they are talking merely of flowers. Life, unseen, thrives among the clefts between observed and unobserved. A versified photo-essay by Nagesh Manay

GHNP Trek Day 7-9 – Lapa-Neuli-Kullu and civilization

GHNP Trek Day 7-9 – Lapa-Neuli-Kullu and civilization

Sandeep SomasekharanMarch 17, 2015March 16, 2015

Back to Kullu — and woeful civilization — after a half-done but nonetheless fulfilling trek in the Great Himalayan National Park. And, with that, we conclude this series by Sandeep Somasekharan.

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…

Encounter: The Brain Fever bird

Bijoy VenugopalDecember 14, 2008June 15, 2015

When I was a child, the Brain Fever Bird was one of my mystery birds. Its plaintive call, rising to a feverish crescendo, kept me awake on many moonlit nights. I was to encounter the bird again, and again, and again, and each time the story wedged itself deeper in my imagination

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