In A Reverie

U rdu they say is a dying language, at least in India. Very few people write in it, and the spoken Urdu is so similar to Hindi or Hindustan...

'Agle janam mohe bitiya na kije'. T his is  how Ameeran (Umrao Jan) felt when she went to her village after maybe two decades. The ...

Sunbird has long curved beak which is idea for sucking honey out of tubular flowers. Tecomea is one such flower. This morning I was able ...

The government has been merrily granting permission  to petroleum companies to peg  petroleum  prices to the current prices prevailing in t...

I am a keen bird watcher, and try to visit Chambal river every year (see my blog on Chambal Cruise).  Chambal has good sand, although in ...

Further on Ganja, Bhang, Charas etc. Times of India of 11 November 2012 has given detailed information  on the subject.  Cannabis ...

The height of naivete After the petroleum prices in India became a joke having been reduced to the level  of vegetable prices, now was...