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ನನ್ನನು 'ಹಿಂಡು ಸೇರದ ಕಾಗೆ' ಎಂದ ಚಂದ್ರಣ್ಣ
59 years and the amazing race continues
Wikipedia deserves respect
Surprising tryst with history in the hills
Grass is green

"ಏನಪ್ಪಾ? ಒಂದೇ ಸೀಟ್ ಇದೆ , ನಿಮ್ ಹೆಂಗಸರನ್ನ ಹೆಂಗ್ ಕರ್ಕೊಂಡ್ ಹೋಗ್ತೀರಾ ? " ಎಂದು ಕೇಳಿಯೇ ಬಿಟ್ಟರು.

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Forest guards watch helplessly, while our tiger debate continues...

Witnessing a Turtle Kumbh Mela

Stir up a passion for cooking!

Rediscovering my Eastern Ghats

I happened to visit Mahabalipuram recently and was fascinated not only by the architectural beauty but also by the good work done in waste management generated by tourist activities. The solid waste management practice done here is commendable work that should be replicated by other towns.

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Offbeat Travel

Adventure greater than life

Have you ever travelled to a place in the wilderness where there is no temple, no historic monument, no shopping market, no beach? Do you feel the need for adventure? No, not that video game; I mean the real adventure of climbing rocks, trekking forests, encountering wild animals, parachute jumping!

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Art & Culture

Deity in Clay: Durga Puja

As a child brought up in Bengal, I have been gripped many a times by the fervour surrounding the Durga Puja. Approaching Pujas, my eyes would search for the motherly silhouette of Maa Durga everywhere I went.

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Alternative-lifestyle

Cycle psychos take over town

What do you feel about riding a cycle... does it sound like a vague memory from your childhood days... How would you react if someone says cycling now a happening movement... if you say weird, then you should have been there at the Freedom Ride 2011 event at Novotel Hotel lawns in Hyderabad on August 15th.

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Volunteering

Giving LIFE to birds in Kaggaladu

Kaggaladu (Kaggalaadu) is another remote village which is privileged to have storks and pelicans come every year to settle their nests on trees in the village. Heard of rare birds coming to nestle amidst the noise and chaos of a village… where villagers take care of the hatchlings if they fall down from their nests… where children bring fish to feed them… Conventionally migratory birds such cranes, storks, herons, avoid human habitats and are protected by the forest authorities in bird sanctuaries.

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Design

Chronicled on Canvas

Turning away from the quotidian, I was audience to a cyclorama of contemporary Indian art inside Centre of International Modern Art gallery, Kolkata. This was an artist's world, born of forms and silhouettes, birds and animals, human beings and landscapes; of oil and water colours, acrylics, crayons, gold and charcoal, silk and cotton thread embroidery; of fiction and reality, women and men, and aquiline and soft features; of power and steel, and nature and creativity.

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Nostalgiphilia

Eclipses and World Superstitions

A Grahan or an eclipse is a rare event when one planetary body obscures another, for a certain duration of time. A solar eclipse is a result of the moon coming in alignment with the sun and blocking its rays from reaching the earth. A full eclipse occurs when this alignment is perfect, and a partial eclipse occurs when this alignment is not complete.

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Caleidoscope-Blog

A Fable Revisited

Invigorating our lives with their depth and infiltering our thoughts and feelings with their encoded, allusive messages, some fables become legendary. “The Little Red Riding Hood” is one such fable. The strong fabric of this story is its interminable moral message of inner strength, which underlies layers of mesh-like innocence and naivety.

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