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88Climate Change and Global Warming - What They Mean for Us
Not so long ago, just 50 years to be exact, my father was posted at Poona, then a small Army cantonment town four hours away from the mind-numbing madness of the big city of Bombay. Poona is now Pune and...
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8310 Things That Make Me Proud To Be Indian, 10 That Make Me Sad
India, my wise friend wrote the other day, is a land of contrasts and contradictions. It is a land of peace and war, of love and hate and many other emotions. You can spend a lifetime and be none the wiser in...
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81Sex in the Animal Kingdom or Are Humans the Sexiest of All Species?
Let me be honest. I see no option but to turn to the subject of sex (what else?) to increase readership. Previous attempts at humour, religion, politics, birding, nature and what have you, have met with...
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79Snapshots In My Mind's Eye
“For oft when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils” How...
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74Mimicking Nature
Have you ever wondered how a gecko stays upside down on the ceiling or why a fly seems to know well in advance when you are trying to swat it? Or why locusts that fly in swarms of millions don’t crash...
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75Ten Days At Kandbari
This is the first in a series of Hubs on a holiday at Kandbari, a charming, little-known hill station in the North Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Kandbari lays no claim to fame. In fact the vast majority...
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71On the Horns of a Dilemma
This is a rather weird question to start with but let me ask it anyway. Where would you rather be–on the horns of a bull or the horns of a dilemma? I guess both can be equally painful in different ways and...
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71Religion And Politics In India
Some years back, we were living in a mofussil town, very close to the geographical heart of India. Within under- arm stone-throwing distance of our house, was a temple. It was small and unprepossessing,...
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71A Monkey Story
If you have ever landed at Jabalpur airport, you would know that the runway lies on a plateau. A landing is possible only if the pilot makes a visual sighting. During the monsoons this becomes even more...
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70Goan Sunrises - A Pictorial Essay
This is a collection of pictures taken from the terrace of my sister's home in Goa, India. These were taken towards the end of October 2009 around 0615 hrs. The fishing trawlers are about to return home. ...
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