Gym thrice a week is now my routine. It’s a twelve minutes’ walk through tree-lined roads which run just below a wooded hill. The woods are a wilderness, now the object of contention be…| Don't hold your breath
The 110 sharp interlocking teeth of the Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) do not protect it from the habitat destruction of the sandminer’s mafia who destroy the place where these animals lay the…| Don't hold your breath
Every trip into the wild is a learning experience for me. There are so many new species, so many new experiences. But one hard earned lesson is not to ignore common species like this Oriental turtl…| Don't hold your breath
10 posts published by I. J. Khanewala during May 2025| Don't hold your breath
Assam macaques (Macaca assamensis) are a study in how our behaviour shapes the behaviour of other species. It is classed as near threatened in the rubric of IUCN. The reasons given are not just the…| Don't hold your breath
Scaly-breasted munias (Lonchura punctulata) are visible fairly frequently when you travel outside of town into dry grassland or scrubland. They are fairly social and have a characteristic call whic…| Don't hold your breath
Indian silverbills (Euodice malabarica, also called White-throated munia) is a gregarious species found in the dry scrublands of South Asia (including Sri Lanka and Nepal) and patchily eastwards in…| Don't hold your breath
High flyers, that’s Bar-headed geese (Anser indicus). They have been reported to fly as high as 10 Kms above sea level as they cross the Himalayas in their flights between their breeding grou…| Don't hold your breath
Back in the village of Colva, we wandered aimlessly in the afternoon, looking for lanes that we had not explored when we visited in the monsoon. Another chapel! This one stood in a small ground, an…| Don't hold your breath
On a crisp morning at the cusp where autumn turns into winter, two Chinese youngsters accompanied me to the Mutianyu section of the great wall. With their help everything turned out to be smooth. I…| Don't hold your breath
The weather had changed around Narkanda since we moved from the cabin on Hatu Peak to a decent hotel at the foot of the mountain. From merely foggy it had gone to foggy with an occasional drizzle d…| Don't hold your breath