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• The Ghost of My Genes

  

  ... the landscape had hills, not hills of the kind I'm used to seeing. Rocky hillocks with shrubbery sprinkled on them, all in contrast with blue skies with... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Micro Stories 2

  

  The following was written during my stay in the Bomdo village in Arunachal Pradesh in May 2015. While writing loosely-connected short anecdotes, I drift a lot... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Palming off the Forests: Implications of Introducing Oil Palm Plantations in...

  

  An oil palm plantation landscape (photograph by Arati Kumar-Rao)Oil palm plantations are lucrative and are being actively encouraged by the Government across... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Of a Big Meal and Curry Leaves, Pressure Cooker and a Bose Speaker!

  

  The following was written during my stay in the Bomdo village in Arunachal Pradesh in May 2015. While writing loosely-connected short anecdotes, I drift a lot... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Who Moved My Greenhouse Plastic?!

  

  This post is a thin slice from the times spent in Upper Siang, Arunachal. For my research on forest recovery following shifting cultivation, I introduced... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• SMS Without a Phone Or Network Or Electricity Even!

  

  The Adis have lived in the remote hills of the Upper Siang in Arunachal Pradesh at the frontier of the country with Tibet for centuries. Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Things Fall in Place

  

  I arrived to my study-village in Arunachal Pradesh after more than a year, hungover from times in America, and from four days spent at home in Bangalore. Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Forest with a White-browed Canopy

  

  Nokrek National Park is a thin slice of forest perched on a ridge with Garo villages on all sides, with an area of less than 50 sq. km. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Chillis That Can Capsaize You!

  

  It really looks like a dull chilli, with an uneven axis and the most modest appearance for being the hottest chilli in the world! But one bite changes it all... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Siang Winter's Tale

  

  Fire brings everyone together! (photo by Robin Abraham)I have spent five of the last six winters in Upper Siang, Arunachal, and this time I am not there! I... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tobacco Trails/trials

  

  I still remember the time the salt-and-pepper-bearded always-smiling old man asked me to get tobacco back to Bomdo. He said, "just get this here, and we will... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Woodstock in a Wooded Place!

  

  Earlier in the day it had rained. Rained so much we were wondering how the rock show would go on. Not far away, the Apatani farmers were harvesting rice; it... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Damn That River

  

  The beautiful Siang (photo by Anirban Datta-Roy)The river roars with whitewater in some sections while in others it flows gentle and placid holding secrets of... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Couch Potato in the Forest

  

  The crossword puzzle cuckoo continuously calls, intermittently a green pigeon sings or perhaps tries to sing; melody for some, closer to cacophony for others.... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Breakfast of the Champions

  It's so good, I didn't want to take a picture of it; I can just think about it and picture the taste perfect! Have you ever eaten a plate of Doh Sniang, a... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Field This Time...

  A month back I had packed for a field trip in north-east India for about 45 days, and after several trial-and-errors over several years, I think I got the... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Day with the Hornbills and Their Protectors!

  

  Its not any day that one begins in a crowded city like Bangalore and sleeps the night in Arunachal Pradesh! And its even rarer to sleep the same night in a... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Memories of Garo Hills

  

  In the year 2006, I had applied for a job in South Garo hills, Meghalaya and having got the job I was really excited to move to north-east India from Bangalore. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Star of the Hills!

  

  The trigger for me to purchase a two-wheeler about three years back for my field work in Upper Siang district in Arunachal was an interesting one. Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• ...and Friending the Fern

  

  This post follows from the previous post 'gilding the lily', do read it if you haven't already...The Adis from Bomdo village seldom clear an interesting plant... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL