Month: January 2017

  • Manjaparai – Yellow Rock

    Manjaparai – Yellow Rock

    In Lower Sheikalmudi Estate, on the other side of Sholayar Dam in the Anamallais, we had a coffee area which was adjacent to the reserve forest. The coffee presented open grazing area to the Sambar and Gaur that live in the reserve forest. They did not damage the coffee itself but would feed on the…

  • Is it a bird or is it a plane? Homeschooling concerns

    Is it a bird or is it a plane? Homeschooling concerns

    Of late I, have been reading many articles on ‘Homeschooling’ – which term when written like this seems to have acquired the status of legitimacy instead of being wrong spelling. The need for a hyphen is apparently no longer felt. ‘Home’ and ‘School’ are evidently no longer two different places, either geographically, physically or emotionally.…