Over the decades I’ve seen police officers who’ve faced enormous challenges on the ground and because of their remarkable sense … More

It was way back in 1973 around this time in April, when I was just about sixteen-and-a-half and not yet … More

It was way back in the early 1970s that I remember seeing this then long haired cousin of mine, Belle … More

How technology changes the way we live. My nephew, Ashwin Rao, who lives in California, but travels extensively around the … More

The past six days have been the most traumatic and tragic for me in my life, when I saw three … More

Watching the setting sun is this Green Bee-eater, apparently satisfied with the pickings for the day. Photographed it near our … More

When she is dancing she is flamboyant, but a while before her performance, she sits serenely next to the musicians, … More

It may appear frightful for many, but some (including me), find this magnetic eye of the Spectacled Cobra to be … More

I remember as a kid living in a chawl in Vakola at Santacruz, Mumbai (or Bombay as it was known … More

As the sun sets, lively bats emerge and head eastwards and into the dark, dark night, looking for food. Caught … More