Markazhi
Blood is red ,but …scene Aswathi kavutheendal Kodungallur What an interesting phenomenon is this!!? Blood in your veins looks blue though being red? This is the reason that blood that courses through your veins in...
2020 ,a leap year for wintering migratory birds In Chilika ?
CHILLIKA LAKE Chilika: Spread across an area over 1,100 sq km, the brackish water lagoon is the largest wintering ground for migratory birds in India. Millions of migratory birds flock the lake every winter season. The...
Yakshis are made, not born ?!
painting by Artist Gopu Pattithara Every one used to speak about her with great fear and widened eyes. Listening to them over and over again, I too began to believe them. When Yakshi bared her incisors, lengthened...
Unornamented Yakshis were counted dangerous and untamed!?
Sri.Kanayi Kunhiramans sculpture”” Yakshi” Sri.Kanayi Kunihiraman’s sculpture titled “Yakshi” is situated in a sculpture garden at Malampuzha, leaving her ornamentally unadorned, not...
MarkazhiTIME’S WINGED CHARIOT
“ KONARK WHEEL “But at my back I always hearTime’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;And yonder all before us lieDeserts of vast eternity.” ”I am always aware of time, the way it flies by. For...
NARANATH BHRANTHAN
STATUE OF NARANATHBHRANTHAN I stopped when I heard a bird call of alarm across the woodland enveloping Rariyanellur and a subdued lament in a voice. I could recognize it in the midst of any chaos. I heard the footsteps...
DEATH WARNING FROM ABOVE ?
KALAN KOZHI,MOTTLED WOOD OWL,STRIX OCELLATA Outside, the night lay inebriated with its vastness. The wind was spreading from the top plane stretching far and the wide top plain of Parakkulam Hillocks on the palm fronts...
ONCE THE STONES BLOOMED IN KONARK
KONARK TEMPLE ..WALL SCULPTURES The art of rock carving and sculpturing reached great heights in second millennium BC in Egypt. The land of Egypt is basically an artist’s canvas or board on which the course of the...
Konark Sun Temple
THE SAGA OF SUN GOD PART 2 sun temple north east view THE SUN WORSHIP IN KERALA In the olden days, one of the inevitable duty assigned to grandma during afternoon hours was preparing the lamp for lighting the lamp at...
The saga of the sun god
KONARK SUN TEMPLE Surya thought… each and every day she gazed at the red sun with growing passion..she conjured that power of morning sun into a red bindii spot on her forehead. EASTERN STEPS TO BHOGAMANDAPA ...
Birds of the same feathers flock together?
mumurations of lessser plovers from Kadammakkudi The early 1970s, a dark brown cloud emerges in the eastern horizon and it smoothly flows to the west shortly after the sunset during winter and in the first phase of...
Onam for all
Thrikkakkarayappans A lot of folk songs are prevalent in narrating sublime Onam experience s of the past ..,””Maveli Nadu vaneedum kalam””is the popular one that every Malayali likes to recreate...
FLOWER LOAN
Onam breaks s the nothingness of time as the flowers break the Chingam light.!! As we were granted an unexpected permission to go outside and pluck Onam flowers, we sprang up, borrowing two pookkundas from neighbouring...
ONAM FEST OF FLOWERS
cyclical search for flowers The wheeling of the seasons evokes the whole human seasonal cycle, germination, growth, decay, death, and rebirth. but Chingam or Onam season realizes the spirit with marvellous concreteness...
THASRAK 2 A journey to bleak emptiness?
THASRAK VIEW FROM CHETALI MALA I waddled towards the nhattupura ..others were engaged in discussions.. I stepped into the veranda and entered into the classroom..The space lay infinite and there emerged Kunhamina with...
TRIP TO THASRAK , A predetermined journey?
NHATTUPURA . SEEDLING HOUSE ”Long, long ago, in times now unknown to man, there came riding into their primordial palm grove a caravan of a thousand and one horses. The riders were Badrins, holy warriors blessed...
Small Pratincole and distraction display
small pratincole Down the river Bharathappuzha, it was growing red, the sky being so soft and sweet, a dusky gleaming with the background score of Red-wattled Lapwing’s raucous creaking strident..titti ttee...