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  • Animals,  Fauna,  Nature,  Travelogues

    The Adorable Giant Pandas

    By Anshu / April 30, 2019

    Ever since I got to know that I would be spending a few days in Macau this summer, I began reading all I could from the internet. And I got really excited at the prospect of finally…

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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Flora,  Musings,  Nature

    The blue-winged leafbird and the blushing Palash

    By Anshu / March 20, 2019

    In the backyard of the quarter just behind my house was a tall tree. Bare. Bereft of leaves. It had probably lived its life. But it was a photographer’s delight. For it was here that I got…

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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Nature

    The ‘tantalising’ painted storks

    By Anshu / February 6, 2019

    The word ‘tantalise’ means ‘desirable but just out of reach’. This word is derived from the Greek mythological figure Tantalus. As the legend goes, Tantalus is a son of Zeus who is an evil doer. In one…

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  • Animals,  Fauna,  Nature,  Travelogues

    On the tiger trail in Tadoba

    By Anshu / January 8, 2019

    Tadoba is Maharashtra’s oldest and largest national park. I had lived on the edge of the Tadoba forest for over six years of my life. The magazine area of the ordnance factory campus where we lived, was…

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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Nature

    The cacophonous red-naped ibis

    By Anshu / January 4, 2019

    Since the new year, every dawn, I hear a series of loud cacophonic screams near my house. These begin as harsh squealing sounds and then get louder almost to the extent of trumpeting. And I know who…

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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Nature

    The Black-necked Stork: A near-threatened species

    By Anshu / December 19, 2018

    Only recently there was a hue and cry in the papers about a black-necked stork which was spotted with a ring around its beak in a wetland outside Delhi. Black-necked storks are large birds, which are classified as…

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  • Animals,  Fauna,  Nature

    The Rhinos of Kaziranga

    By Anshu / December 11, 2018

    Reminded of Ogden Nash’s poem, The Rhinoceros: The Rhino is a homely beast,For human eyes he’s not a feast,But you and I will never knowWhy Nature chose to make him so.Farewell, farewell, you old rhinoceros,I’ll stare at…

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  • Birds,  Fauna,  Nature

    Pallas’s fish eagle: Spotting a nest

    By Anshu / November 24, 2018

    In Kaziranga, last year, we spotted a nest. Was it empty? Empty nest? No, two white heads bobbed up. Hey! There is a couple inside! Eagles! Which one? This is Pallas’s fish eagle, a species classified as ‘vulnerable’ in…

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  • Birds,  Nature

    The raucous white-breasted waterhens

    By Anshu / July 7, 2018

    I had just returned from work and was parking my vehicle, when I heard some loud strange noises in the field beyond the boundary wall of my house. It was raining and I should have rushed into…

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  • Birds,  Nature

    Morning yoga with a scaly breasted munia

    By Anshu / June 8, 2018

    Manna Dey immortalized these birds in Teesri Kasam, when he sang Chalat musafir moh liya re pinjre wali munia… I have always found scaly breasted munias very attractive specially for their designer waistcoats. One morning, as I was enjoying…

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