[adsenseyu1] [adsenseyu2] My Images for 7 day Nature Photo Challenge A few days ago I was invited by fellow traveler and blogger Pooja Bhatt to participate in 7 days Nature Challenge. The rules of the challenge are that you post one new image every day and nominate somebody else to take the challenge further. I was a bit reluctant to participate in the same as I have joined the 7-day nature challenge earlier also on the invitation of other friends. But Pooja insisted that I must share my images. So over a period of 7 days I shared images, [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

[adsenseyu1] [adsenseyu2] July 2015 calendar desktop wallpaper: A playful Elephant Calf Half of 2015 is already gone, and monsoon is already showering relief from heat in most of the country while rest of us eagerly await for the first Monsoon Showers. In the meantime I share with you the July 2015 desktop calendar to download. But first a bit about the picture: The picture was taken at the Elephant Camp in Dubare in Coorg as the calf discovered the cloth in the river next to a rock and decided to play with it. The behavior was not very different [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

[adsenseyu2] [adsenseyu1] A creative way to help the Asian Elephants: Elephant Parade Exhibition India and Thailand share a lot in common right from ancient maritime trade to shared mythology in Ramayana. Just like India, Thailand is also home to the last few thousand surviving wild Asian Elephants that are very distinct from their bigger cousins found in Africa. No wonder that Ganesha our Elephant headed god is worshiped in both the countries. While staying at Anantara Riverside Resort in Bangkok, I noticed this beautiful golden elephant painted with Buddha all over it. Suggested reading Ganesha Worship in Thailand I [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]
[adsenseyu1] [adsenseyu2] A Night In Anti Poaching Camp Bandipur National Park Acres of marigold fields glowing in the evening sun waved at us from the other side of a solar fence that separated the jungle from the fields, as we drove towards the anti poaching camp in Bandipur National Park. When I did my first phase of Eco Volunteer training with Karnataka Forest department and Jungle Lodges and Resorts, I wrote about the short visit we made to the Anti Poaching camp in the jungle where tourists are not allowed. As part of the training in second phase we stayed [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

[adsenseyu1] Making of Jesus in the Backwaters of Alleppey in Kerala Happy yet humbled at our discovery of the ancient Portuguese church in the backwaters of Alleppey during our Houseboat ride, I and Nelson my friend from Portugal decided to explore some more around the church. I was pondering of higher questions like divine, god, religion etc. and one thought kept on coming to my mind, “ God made man or man made God? , if God is one, why do we have so many religions? And how come every religion claims as the only true one? Can there be more [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]