When one’s a child, I think that happiness is the same as pleasure. Watch a child’s face light up as s/he gets what he wants, for that moment at least. This instantaneous happiness is perhaps why so many of us remember our childhoods as “happy days”.

We participated in the HSBC Bangalore Bird Race about which, hopefully, my article will appear in Citizen Matters….last year’s not-very serious piece is here ) ….

Watched “Slumdog Millionaire”…and got to wondering, “how is it that I am born so privileged, and others are not?”

Moderating the JLRNTP egroup has benefited me in many ways; I have met a lot of interesting people. One of these is Santosh Martin, who live in Bellary. I had heard of Santosh’s work in researching and documenting the Great Indian Bustard in Bellary District, but when I visited him, I found that he was much more versatile than that!

I realized I had photographed a few more gems, and hadn’t included them.