Natural, Scientific and Medical Wonders

In my childhood days, I had wondered about a nut that remained stuck on the eaves tiles . How had it gone there? Crow had swallowed i...

In childhood, we used to talk about the exciting stories that we heard - like that of snakes and ghosts. Out of the snake stories there...

Nowadays, whenever I look at a particular tree species my mouth waters - the past experience with tasting of its fruits influences me like t...

In my childhood, I have been shown the plant, ' Touch-me-not ' as a wonder, whenever our family visited Courtallam (the hilly and h...

Though some plants are thorny, they bear beautiful flowers and have also medicinal properties; you see a flower of Tack weed ( Tribulus...

If we get something unusual we are amazed. You see here the flowers of hybrid Cluster beans that were robust and grew up tall over a meter!...

An unusual colour excites and sticks well to your mind - a Yellow Shoe flower shows itself here: Delicious fruits that were offered b...

On one of the days in June 2010, the Guava tree in my garden was uprooted by the windy rains. That tree yielded delicious f...

In school class room it was taught that transpiration is one of the plant's physiological functions. But do we know that ' reve...

Each year in summer we expect the arrival of a delicacy in the market. It takes the heat off our head and cools down the whole body. In m...

I had wondered in my younger days that how banana leaves are seen coming out of wayside dunes. In closer view I found out that they grew ...

I had wondered in my childhood how an elephant could digest the contents of a fruit without breaking its hard shell. My sisters had infor...

Orchid flowers are very beautiful. But the orchids are difficult to grow and have these flowers. There is an easily grown tropical tree...

Every day we have this visitor from the animal kingdom into our household. It searches here and there for small food particles. If it fi...

Whatever present in the Nature is mimicked, it will wonder us, is it not? A garden with colorful trees present inside a glass jar(!) is ...

As a little boy I was shown some flying birds that flew past on the sky at dusk. (By doing this my sisters were clever in diverting my a...

I found one day a plant among bushes on the wayside, becoming prominent by popping up by itself with its bright yellow heads. It had lar...

After an event in life other events follow. The question that arises within us after knowing about that prime event is: What happened...

One bird that I watched and wondered in my childhood made me to continue Bird-watching as a hobby. It is the Common Tailorbird ( Orthoto...

Then, in 1960s, here in my home town a lane was called after a tree that had been grown along its side. It was called as ' Vaadhaank...