Ganesh Mahadevan

Life: Then and Now

by Ganesh Mahadevan June 14, 2008

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 January 8, 2008
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 December 30, 2007
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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Bangithapal Trek – Crystal streams and misty peaks

by Ganesh Mahadevan December 19, 2007
Woody Forest Trail

No trek in the Nilgiris can kick off without experiencing the winding road journey up the ghat to Ooty. The three of us roused ourselves in the wee hours of the morning with some difficulty and got onto the Ooty bus at 5.45 a.m. The fact that we were seated directly over the back tyre did not help our cause of trying to catch up on lost sleep. Somehow defying its rundown appearance, our bus managed to reach Ooty by a quarter past nine.

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Global Warming – A pressing reality – Part 1

by Ganesh Mahadevan November 25, 2007
Flooding due to Global Warming

Melting glaciers in Greenland. Heat wave in Europe. Hurricane Katrina destroys New Orleans. Wildfire in California. Ice shelf breaks in Antartica. Somebody else’s problems we think, a passing glance at the news and then we concentrate on more important things

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