We've had the best bird sightings on Sunday mornings. Today, we saw a flock of rose-ringed parakeets weaving furiously between canopies. These candy-colored fliers are no dandies. They seem to rocket through the leafy lanes with speed, precision, and power. We heard a few white-cheeked barbets before we spotted them hopping around in extra thick... Continue Reading →
The Purple-Rumped sunbird (Leptocoma zeylonica), along with the Asian Green Bee-Eater (Merops orientalis), is one of the most colorful birds I encounter at home. When the pomegranate plant that grows on my balcony or the shampoo ginger (pine cone ginger) flowers, these sunbirds arrive early to beat the usual queue. Up close, the Purple-Rumped sunbird... Continue Reading →
I was very worried about the Black Drongo that I saw perched on the telephone line two nights in a row in the same place. The Black Drongo was one of those rare common bird that I could identify from when I was a kid. Its Tamil name, Rettai Vaal Kuruvi, also helps aid recollection... Continue Reading →
For some days now, I have been reading Tim Birkhead's excellent book Birds and Us, A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation. I picked it up in Kinokuniya in Bangkok (at the Central World outlet). Sometime this year, I started taking a fledgling interest in the birds visiting my Bangalore home, chiefly the... Continue Reading →
I've had a traveling injury that first started from my right shoulder. Slowly, the pain migrated to my lower back and finally came to rest on my right ankle. Over the past seven months, I have paid some attention to how it has immobilized me, forcing me to rely on other body parts to compensate... Continue Reading →
I haven't written about my time in Singapore for a reason. It disproportionately features in my most secretively hoarded memories. Whenever I think back to my time in Singapore I can feel my heart quickening and pulse racing. When I try to write about it I have a feeling not very much unlike when one... Continue Reading →
I first met Jack around 4 years ago. Through the following years, I saw him exactly at 4 in the evening. At 4, the days he was at his shop, which was almost every day, he closes his shop, hangs a "Be Right Back" sign, and steps out to get coffee at the coffee shop... Continue Reading →
When I first traveled to London in 2006, my manager had booked a house in Leytonstone. We must have spent a week there. It was a dark and dingy place, about an hour's train ride from our workplace in the docklands near Canary Wharf. After a week, a colleague told one of my roommates that... Continue Reading →
Earlier this year I had the chance to visit Berlin. It has been about 3 months and I have not gotten the opportunity nor made the time to write about Berlin. The trip is now quickly fading from my memory, threatening to leave behind the usual vague remembrances of travel impressions. Berlin was bitterly cold... Continue Reading →
Mira loves spotting cats. She is great at it. I am fairly observant, too, but her eyes seem sharper, and her ability to spot felines hiding seems highly tuned. She lets out a small yelp or a dramatic "caaatt" in a low voice when she spots one. Cats are evening routines, though. Early mornings, on... Continue Reading →
Travelling with Fabulosity
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