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Oct 29, 20209 min read

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...

Sep 13, 20207 min read

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...

Sep 11, 20208 min read

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...

Aug 7, 20206 min read

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...

Aug 4, 20206 min read

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...

Mar 23, 20174 min read

INDIAN GREY HORNBILL or Nattuvezhambal or Ocyceros birostris

Indian Grey Hornbill , Nattu vezhambal What is the payment for blowing horns? The cross word puzzle goes like this. Answer is Horn...

Mar 17, 20172 min read

MARAYUR DOLMENS

Marayur Dolmen Iron age is commonly named Megalithic age characterized by the practice of raising big stone monuments to the...

Mar 15, 20173 min read

COCHIN BRIDGE AT SHORANUR

COCHIN BRIDGE You may think Cochin bridge in Eranamkulam district..you are wrong .It is situated 100 km north of Kochi and provided...

Mar 13, 20173 min read

KAITHALI TEMPLE , Pattambi .A.S.I. SITE IN PALAKKAD District.

KAITHALI TEMPLE ,PATTAMBI. There remains a myth still woven around the construction of Kaithali temple. The myth holds that Pattambi...

Mar 9, 20173 min read

ANCHURULI TUNNEL

Anchuruli tunnel Anchuruli reservoir ”I found myself in what appeared to be a large tunnel with a small white light at the other end. I...

May 29, 20164 min read

EDAKAL ROCK ENGRAVINGS

Art has been around since the dawn of time; prehistoric cave paintings can be found in grottos and on cliffs around the world. The, ...

Apr 30, 20162 min read

SMALL GREEN BILLED MALKOHA OR BLUE -FACED MALKOHA OR PACHACHUNDAN was spotted at Ottappalam

blue faced Malkoha It was a sultry afternoon of hot April month..I signed up for bird watching .I was walking slowly along the trail that...