Natural, Scientific and Medical Wonders

In my childhood days I was warned about a slithering lizard inhabiting wastelands. It is still believed that its presence means that there i...

When I was a child, elders told me to listen to the sounds coming out from a nearby grove and alerted me about it like this: 'it is the...

We see ants, termites and bees live a social life sharing tasks among themselves. But a mammal too leads such a eusocial life! It is the ...

Science teacher at school explained why trees grown along the sides of railway track seem to 'run' back as one travels in a train . ...

At school, as boys we used to play on its sandy ground. Then we were often stunned by feeling some creature crawling up between our shi...

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...