The water lily harvest takes place in the labyrinth of water and land of the Mekong Delta and is one of the many wonders of Vietnam. This...

The Cherry Blossom (Sakura) in Japan has been celebrated for many centuries and it holds prominent importance in the Japanese culture....

"We've been asked to write a journal paper almost every month!" declared an academician friend of mine in frustration just a few days...

According to climate scientists, the global maximum average temperature rise should not be allowed to increase beyond 1.5°C to avoid...

Click here, to go directly to the 'Kuler Chatni' (Jujube Chutney) recipe.. As the winter wind fades to usher in the spring, one can find...

For book lovers like me, who are too lazy to pressurize their brains in remembering the page number they were last reading and also hates...

Continuing from Part 1. NOTE: As I talk about the various lost and fading professions in this series, I would also like to emphasise the...

NOTE: Dear Readers, I will be posting this topic in two to three parts depending on the length of the topic as the writing progresses. As...

FAST FACTS: What made Guano so important as to almost start a World War? All of us are very well aware of the importance of fertilizers...

Do you find your books to be clutter or love stacking them? I have never been much of a hoarder and periodically declutter by donating...

Would horror movies be so scary if not for the background sounds? I think all of you would have the same answer to this... A big NO!.....

'The only constant in life is change' - Some 2500 years ago, a Greek philosopher named Heraclitus said it when the idea of 'change' was...

The amount of water on earth has been the same across the eons, but the population of the earth has exploded leaving the earth’s water...

Food has the power to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places — José Andrés Puerta In the December of...

I've been meaning to write about Murshidabad since Nov '19, the time when I visited this historical place. While lethargy and...

‘পুতুল নেবে গো, পুতুল…। আমার এই ছোট্ট ঝুড়ি, এতে রাম রাবণ আছে দেখে যা নিজের চোখে হনুমান কেমন নাচে। এ সুযোগ পাবেনা আর, বল ভাই কি দাম দেবে-...

Note: You can read my previous blog, What Stories do your Kitchen Windows tell?, to understand the source of the names of the squirrels...

Contents Ukraine - The Country The Russia-Ukraine War Pre-war environmental crisis of Ukraine Fast Facts related to the war Global...

At the outset, you may ask 'how will my small effort matter in a population of around 8 billion?' To this I'd like to say that: As it is...