KERALA BACKWATERS
With things Keralite, Rachna was so smitten, That never the shy one, she even let herself get bitten. Though the little dog's bite did give KP some worry, He got her some shots and on did they hurry. »»
BEHEMOTHS OF BUXA
Tanmay Choudhury finally got to experience his favourite saying- 'In the jungle, expect the unexpected!' He was virtually boxed-in by behemoths in a place called Buxa. »»
HIMACHAL VALLEY: WE DID THIS, WE DID THAT
The larger the canvas, the smaller the artist feels. The busier the agenda, shorter feels the vacation. Unless you are Lokesh Abrol who, with his drive through some Himachal valleys, proved that you can indeed do a lot in a little time, without rushing through placesin fact, taking the time to smell the flowers and shoot some butterflies. »»
PROUD PROTAGONISTS OF PENCH
The Law of the Jungle, which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill and then he must hunt outside the hunting-grounds of his pack or tribe. The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches. Then everybody in the jungle suffers. The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenceless of all living things and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him. They say too - and it is true - that man-eaters become mangy and lose their teeth. - Rudyard Kipling »»
BINSAR - WORTH A FEW PICKS
So what if they did not get to spot a leopard? With what Nandita and Kalyan did get to see and that too in plenty, what remained out of sight was soon forgotten! »»
BALI BECONS
Ranjit Lal went to Bali for what most of us go to a tropical island for - the birds and the bees and balmy beaches. So? »»
OUTSIDE/INSIDE:THE BRONX ZOO
Cats, Four Seasons and the Fifth Avenue? The really wild NY is in the Bronx Zoo! Supriya Mukherjee and Kalyan Patra give you a taste of this old-in-the-bones-but-young-at-heart institution, visited on a rare day when the visited almost outnumbered the visitors. »»