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Rainforest Retreat – The real face of Eco Tourism

by Ganesh Mahadevan
Road to the RainForest Retreat

This summer, we took our family vacation in the southern part of Karnataka, a region famed for the biodiversity of the western ghats and of course the world renowned national parks at Bandipur and Nagarhole.

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Summer : A Tale of two trees

by Ganesh Mahadevan
derelict_neem_tree

Yesterday the first pre-monsoon showers hit us. The temperature dropped a whopping 10 deg C in a single day. We had the air cooler on till the previous night. Yesterday night, we had to reduce the speed of our ceiling fan. What a contrast!. As the hottest summer in the past 5 years came to an end, I felt the need to pen my observations and thoughts.

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Diary of a Tree

by Ganesh Mahadevan
Diary of a tree

Good evening my friends, enemies and other most dangerous creatures that includes the indifferent people of the Living Planet. Before I am carried into the dusk on the bed of my yellow and green painted coffin, I wanted to reach out to you all and share my life’s experiences and wisdoms. My autobiography so to speak.

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Life: Then and Now

by Ganesh Mahadevan

June. The transition month. Gusts of wind invade the still and sweltering sauna heat of May. Little candy tufts of white cloud scurry across deep blue skies increasingly painted over by a dull grey as the days go by. Dry heat gives way to wet warmth. As the winds of change blow in from the south west, the first sprinkling of cool, cool water soaks the ground and wafts in the earthy smell of fresh mud.

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KBR National Park – An Oasis of green

by Ganesh Mahadevan
Peacocks at KBR - Pix Credits - Ganesh

Central Park, New York. Stanley Park, Vancouver. Hyde Park, London. KBR Park, Hyderabad. Hyderabad?. The reader may be a little nonplussed here. What is this park in Hyderabad and how does it figure with the three best urban parks in the world!

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Bangithapal Trek – Day 2

by Ganesh Mahadevan
Firelines in the forest

I stir out of bed by 5 a.m. and complete my morning ablutions in the icy cold water. Soon, our group stirs one by one. I am out to catch the early morning pre-sunrise view from the rest house. It is ethereal. Hills in front rolling away to both sides. A stream gurgles below. Faint light from behind the hills gives a dull orangish tinge to the sky above. Wisps of mist float past me.

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