chaityas of ajanta caves
Chaityas are buddhist prayer halls that house a stupa. The word chaitya has its roots in sanskrit chita ~ meaning a pyre or a pile of ashes. The ancient rock-cut buddhist caves of Ajanta...
Author: Roxy Mathew Koll
the lemon emigrant
It is lemony, and it is a migrant. Migration could be one of its strategy to deal with adverse seasonal changes, like the tropical rainfall. It also exhibits seasonal dimorphism: dark yellow colors(form crocale)...
copyright violation and the indian treepie
It was sarah who spotted the bird’s picture in the magazine first. We were at the pune railway station seeing off our mom who came to visit us, and we bought this magazine for...
babbler sisters
The jungle babblers are called seven sisters as they are gregarious (social, group forming) in nature and always appear in groups of around 7 birds (6~10). They also display sentinel (guard) behaviour which usually...
the stone suckers
The stone suckers (sp. garra mullya ,malayalam: kalle-mutti) are one of our favorite fish species. They get their name from their habit of sticking to the rocky substratum in the streams. If you dip your...
