Places impact you for a variety of reasons. And the same place impacts different people in different ways. This is especially true when it comes to spiritual experiences, where every single person’s experience is unique. And personally, every spiritual experience is unique, the same person can have different deeply spiritual experiences at different places, at different times. This thought has emerged because of my own experiences over the years, but especially so this year, with different and unique experiences at various places I have visited recently. I began this year with a visit to Baroda (Vadodara) with friends. It was meant to be a relaxed trip, a touristy trip, with our sons. We enjoyed ourselves to the hilt, but the highlight of that trip was a visit to the Lakulisha temple at Pavagadh. It was the iconography of the temple that I connected with, and I spent a few hours simply lost in the details of the figures carved around the temple. There was an indefinable connect with
I stumbled across this as I was surfing through the net, aimlessly as always...... and then my eyes fell on this, and I was absolutely stunned!
This article from the National Geographic News tells us of a rare sighting of seven different species of cats - one of which was totally unknown there. But what was really surprising was the location - Assam! Yes, in our very own country!!!! Hard to believe isn't it, considering the state of our forests?? Maybe everything is not yet lost....Let us salvage what we can while we still have it.
You can read the whole article here.
Meanwhile, I couldn't resist downloading the pics onto my blog..... All the photos belong to Kashmira Kakati, the wildlife biologist whose research led her to this wonderful sighting. Thanks to Kashmira and National Geographic for these wonderful pics..
Leopard |
Leopard Cat |
Clouded Leopard |
Golden Cat |
Jungle Cat |
Tiger |
Marbled Cat |
Hey Anu.. loved ur new organised look.. This made very interesting read.. thanks so much
ReplyDeletewow..thats awesome
ReplyDeletegoing by this i am hoping this Tiger no of 1114 is false and there are many more safely (and thankfully)hidden away in our forests
and not the end of the world as predicted...
eternal optimist!
love the blue feel to yr blog..feels like I am at the beach...and thats my fav.spot!
you wont believe how happy and scared this news makes me. Happy that such things still exists intact, scared that it may be the last time we see them, even in pics. I really wish the forests are conserved for the wonderful bio diversity they have. And thanks a load for the pics!
ReplyDeleteThat is really good news Anu and thanks for sharing with us.
ReplyDeleteWow! That is something!
ReplyDelete@AJCL: thanks a lot...knew this would interest a lot of people like us, which is why i put this up...
ReplyDelete@ssstoryteller: i hope so too...... thanks...... i just noticed the new template designer on blogger and tried it out.....
@Sri: absolutely!!!! it is great news certainly, but we dont want more tourists rushing there trying to spot them and disturb their habitat!!!
@CHitra : its really great news..
@Julia: Absolutely!!!
Hey
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome stuff! I'm fwding the link to ur blog to a few of my friends!
It is quite exciting to see all 7 breeds of cats
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