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Today..An email from my young friend Anvitha Satish, whom I often exchange emails with...Just felt like sharing this with u.... :) I had told you that a teacher helped me in saving the black kite. That teacher not only told about the kite story in the assembly one day but also said it to her friend Meera. Meera is a wildlife conservator and she came to my school today. She is really passionate about saving forests and wild animals. She shared her experiences in the wild and showed many beautiful pictures of tigers, birds, snakes, leopards, gaurs, bears and many…

Most of us who have tried to grow plants are sure to have encountered these 'troublemakers'. They have often 'spoilt' our well-laid plans for the garden, or harassed us into spending extra time, clearing them from the garden. In fact it has become such a habit, that even while walking through or sitting idly in the garden, we can catch ourselves picking them off the soil. I am talking here about what we all refer to as 'weeds'. Only of late, have I tried to change my lens for viewing these plants. And it's been a great learning. Contrary to…

 Everyone feels festive, and rather generous, on an auspicious day...and many people like to tap into this vein of generosity. Here's the itenerant with his decorated cow...she walks through the streets on festivals like Sankranti (in fact, this was taken on Ekadasi day, on the 4th of March...the 11th day after the new moon)....calls out to householders that good times are coming. The cow is trained to nod its head to every rhetorical question that her  owner asks ("Is prosperity coming to this house? Will happiness rule in this place?") and when the children come running out to see the colourful…

This Sunday, I went with my friends on a nature trail in the Bannerghatta Zoo area, and while there, we watched the camp elephants.... The females and their calves were going into the rear gate of the Zoo, but before that, the two calves had a great time, play-wrestling with each other...and we were delighted to watch!Earlier, we had seen the lone tusker, too...and kept the wall of the JLR Hill View Restaurant safely between us and the animal...tuskers are notoriously unpredictable animals!It was wonderful to watch the two baby elephants...and one of them came up to my friend, and when…

We'd taken our birder friend from Kerala to the Kaikondanahalli Lake. We were greeted by the spot-billed ducks and purple moorhens. And at twilight a big flock of Lesser Whistling Ducks took off (about 200); the sight and sound of a big whistling flock is quite a sensation. It was fairly dark when we reached the swamp area. "Sandpipers" and a friend pointed to activity in the swamp. "Sandpipers" quicky turned to "ringed plover? Painted Snipe!". We could hardly believe our luck. We did try our luck at shooting them too (Snipers, we are not!). We saw at least 3…

With soaring temperatures ice creams become a necessity. Be it a candy or a whole box of it, no one wants to say no to it. Here are some of the ice cream shops in Jayanagar. Pic: Deepthi M S From mobile ice creams carts to an exclusive ice cream parlour, Kwality Wall's Swirls is at your reach. Situated amidst the busy Jayanagar 4th block, it is one of the places where one can relax on a bean bag. The parlour is having an offer where you buy a Cornetto 'love potion swirl' and you get a love token for…

There will be no power supply from 10 am to 12 noon on March 7th, Wednesday, in areas under 66/11KV Vijayanagar MUSS because of maintenance works.Affected areas are: Thimmenahalli, Govindaraj Nagar, MC Layout, Binny Layout, Marenahalli, Hosahalli, PC Industrial Area, Kaveripura, Ranganathapura, KCG Industrial Area, Nanjappa Industrial Area, Prashanth Nagar, Kamakshi Palya, HVR Layout, Syndicate Bank Colony, Pipe Line Road, RPC Layout, Maruthi Layout, Manuvana, Vijayanagar 1st to 9th Main, Selvam Industrial Estate, Sunkadakatte Industrial Area, part of Magadi Road, KHB Colony, Kamala Nagara, Basweshwara Nagara, Telephone exchange, Teacher's Colony, Mudala Palya, A Dasarahalli, part of Vrushabhavathi Nagar, Nagarabhavi BDA…

There will be no power supply from 10 am to 2 pm on March 3rd, Saturday, in areas under 66/11KV A-STATION for maintenance works.Affected areas are: SC Road, TB Road, AR Circle, Binny Mills, City railway Station, Cottonpet, Akkipet, part of Chickpet, Balepet, Avenue Road, Kilari Road, Mamulpet, Cunningham Road, Palace Cross Road, Abshot Layout, Chakravarthy Layout, Kumar Krupa East Extension, Vasantha Nagar, Palace Road, Kanteerava Stadium, Nagarathpet, Century Club, Central Library, Old Taluk Office Road, Okalipuram, Prakash Nagar, Bashyam Park, Lakshminarayanapura, KP west, Srirampura, RV shetty layout, Krishna Flour Mill, VGP gate, Karnataka Judicial Academy, West End Hotel, Karnataka…

Swensens, a popular American ice-cream chain is now a well-known hangout place for ice-cream lovers near the 80 feet road in Koramangala. With 40 different Sundae varieties and 24 different flavors, Swensen's has the perfect ambience to relish a scoop of ice-cream. The three popular flavors, which have been attracting a lot of customers, are the nutty crispy tower, Ceit tower at Rs 139 each and the hot fudge bonaza split at Rs 119. Price range is Rs 60 per scoop to Rs 399 for a special Sundae.Address: 621, Ground Floor, Opposite Barista, Near Sony Center Signal, 80 Feet Road,…

"Uncle Sam, put on back your pants" a line from one of the compositions of Jamaican-Canadian-African dub poet D'bi Young Anitafrika is one that rings in my head on a regular basis. It works as an essential reminder of the number of soulless 'uncles' who abuse children sexually. But according to Young who performed at the Jaaga Creative Common Ground in Bengaluru on 28th January 2012, it is also a metaphor for how selfish capitalists continue to rape and ravage life on earth without sparing a thought about the adverse impact of their actions. Well, if they take the good…