The Kulgi Camp run by the Forest Department had this sign over the canteen (every tent was named after a bird or animal)…

http://bangalore.metblogs.com/archives/2007/02/in_love_with_their_own_hype.phtml#more

I found this delightful view of this delightful, colourful little bird amongst the photographs…I don’t know if I took the picture or KM did; but looking at the detail of that little spider-web thread just next to the bird, and its clarity, I feel it might have been KM rather than me…

I went to Lalbagh and then to MTR (Mavalli Tiffin Room, a Bangalore institution that still serves coffee in silver tumblers!) this morning, to meet other people who are writing for Metroblogs Bangalore…and met and as a totally unexpected bonus, , whose photography and love for Tamizh culture and language have long fascinated me...I was, I think, the only one there without a camera, the place was bristling with Canons and Nikons and lenses that can work magic....

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