People & Lifestyle

Kumbha kudam

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Towering to a height of 20 feet, it is hazardous to balance Chendu to dance, holding on a human head. By chanting Durga Devi in their tongues, they believe the grace of the goddess help them to achieve that balance. Even more hard work is needed to make it, with non flexible palm wood, hand […]

People & Lifestyle

The toddy tapper

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Having an aerial view of the life beneath; the village believes that no secrets can hide from him. Climbing up and down to the heights twice a day provides a masculine physique to him. He has a buffalo femur in one hand, and a black container in the other. Earlier, this container was the shell […]

Nature

Camping mammals of sacred groves

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How it being described? An avian without feathers ???A bird mom who lactate???Mistaken in the name of a haematophagous cousin, the services done by these flying mammals are least considered. In the silent nights, flying long distances, with their four feet long wings, in search of large fruits for satisfying the stomach and dispersal of […]

Nature

Cloud’s Magic

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Wandering glider (Pantala flavescens), a dragon fly from South Africa, arrive as an envoy of this phenomenon… They fly in the fields and by seeing them the farmers eagerly finish the works remaining after paddy harvest; the husking, packing and loading. As soon as the phenomenon arrives following this invertebrate, the fragrance of the wet […]

Culture

The eleven feet pride…

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In record, he ever had two comKerala festivalspetents. One is alive and the other dead…The living first one rules the forests of Bardia park, Western Nepal. With a shoulder height 11 feet 3 inches, it being recorded as the largest Asiatic elephant in wild. About the second , who is not alive, was named as […]

Nature

The featherless birdwing.

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It will be absolutely convincing that Gaur is the largest bovine of India, though its glossy black hump only is visible above the bushes… When Dalmatian pelican spread its broad white wings, it is not difficult to believe it as the biggest Indian bird… But, when you hear about the largest Indian butter fly, obvious […]

Culture

Wall’s colour pentads

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The various color pigments of the hydrates of Iron oxide and Ferric oxide have longevity when being imprinted on a surface; just as chemistry explains…But, how can you explain the same longevity of the greenish blue extract of Indigo plant* leaves!!! What is the secret of permanence of the soot of a cotton wick immersed […]

Nature

Actor of secretive theatre.

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A feisty little carnivore, a survivor in the proximity of humans, this is the most adaptable among the six mongoose species of India. As Ricky Ticky Tavi, in Kipling’s Jungle book, it is popular all over the world and desired to be seen in the wild. It is amazing how a predator like him survives […]

Culture

Rhythm of Snake boat race

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Hearing the rhythm of snake boat race means be there at the place… To move a large wooden boat with a length of 100-120 feet should need a uniform type of human effort. To create that uniformity, the group of singers of the boat beat at the specially designed part with a large wooden pole […]

Nature

Whistle of the bushes…

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Its song is filled with energy and joy of a school boy which resulted in its nomenclature as Whistling school boy by britishers during their Indian reign. The sounds of streams and rivulets, which are its typical habitats, provide back ground score to its song. It look like a male Koel or a lean House […]