When the mottled grey crab sidles through your gate because it turned right, not left, and has mislaid the sea, and rears up and waves ...

Monsanto's chapati patent raises Indian ire Monsanto, the world's largest genetically modified seed company, has been awarded p...

Tiruttani temple elephant treated at Chennai CHENNAI: After nearly a week of intense discomfort, Valli (28), the Tiruttani Arulmighu S...

Via MetaFilter : a beautiful site, Hasta Mudra , about the history and significance of hand gestures in the Bharata Naytam style of dance. ...

I went out and bought some drawing materials yesterday. I can't draw. My father could, and my sister can, but my lines look so hesitan...

Has Mysterious Killer of India's Vultures Been Found? I've been reading for several years about the decline of India's vultur...

With the cool season officially over, and the weather inexorably hotting up day by day, this song inevitably comes to mind: Mad Dogs and En...

Didn't you always want to know how to build a sword-cane ?

He's a monster, how much can I take? He wakes me up in the night to tell me, "I'll bring three women into the house, I'll ...

Suddenly there are too many interesting weblogs. I just saw a very funny piece in Patang! (what a nice name - it means 'kite') - P...

We had a surprise meeting last night, with an American friend who lived in Chennai some years ago, and is here for a visit. She had lived f...

Like so many wonderful things, this is from Wood s Lot : India, 1969-1971 and 1979-1980 Priest, Banaras William Gedney Photograph...

From the BBC: Plotting for a Better Bollywood Improbable tales of true love overcoming desperate odds are a hallmark of Bollywood, the In...

I drove to the dentist and saw a delicate, prancing white cow, painted on the blue door of a water-lorry. A woman rode pillion on the back ...

"No. 124 Hippies In India" (Indian postcard, probably 1970s)

(Northern India Transport Train) Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire? It isn't standin...

Remembering sandesh, its creamy / grainy texture, my mouth and nose flooded with the taste and smell of rosewater. Surrounded by recorded...

Two links to photographs of India from Wood s Lot : Photographs of Agra, Allahabad, and Fatehpur Sikri from leuschke.org Photographs of ...

I just found this great link, thanks to rouquin ricain's journal : Diana Eck's lecture on Manifestations of Shiva . The lecture is...

Bahadur came back from Arani after only two days. Mary reported that he had donated all his money to the temple (he had borrowed Rs. 1,000 ...