Figuring Things Out

Stray dogs protecting their turf (Pic source: DNA 14Dec17) I have always found it difficult to understand the dynamics and the power...

A 3in1 phone-lens at Miniso - solid Value for Money "Oh, Miniso?", said the sales-person at Muji, "You could call  them...

"Its just a local trauma..." "No, its a bacterial wart! be careful, it infectious...certainly needs a surgery and bio...

Over the past one week, I have been analyzing the market for air purifiers in the NCR Delhi region. It is just the right time of the ...

“There is water here,” the old man from Kasaragod said simply, after reading the landscape and its botany, and placing his hands on the e...

A debate is raging over one of India's first "successful" Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects. The Delhi-Noida-Direct...

Has there really been a shap decline the population of House Sparrows in India? In our corner of the National Capital Region (Noid...

A few years ago experts had predicted that the arrival of malls, hypermarts and then the online stores would spell doom for the Kirana sh...

A mop of blond hair looks ugly on evergreen trees. Parasitic infestations by the Cuscuta species, that seems to have started as an nu...

It has been an unusual combination of summer and monsoon this year. The dry heat lasted for a lot longer in May-June, and then, after a fe...

Recently, we got conned into 'buying' a time-share holiday scheme from a company called "Mountain Club Resorts PL, New Delhi...

What a remarkable coincidence! Just the day after I struggled to identify an unusual, elegant bird perched on an electric line, it turned...

View NOIDA - Along the Expressway in a larger map I visited the Noida Special Economic Zone (NSEZ) yesterday expecting to see something,...

The sight of grass often reminds me of a few lines in Max Erhman's famous poem, Desiderata : "Be yourself. Especially, do not ...

A Nilgai  (Litt. 'Blue-Cow'-  Boselaphus tragocamelus )  has been foraging in our neighborhood for the past few week. Every time I...

Which is this mosquito that landed on my CD after a happy-meal? Over the past two weeks there has been a spike in the mosquito popula...