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Mangroves of Mumbai

What are mangroves? these can be called trees that can grow upto the height of 120 ft that are buffers between the land and the sea and protect the land from continuous soil erosion from the tidal waves from what you just see in the pictures.The most exciting features about mangroves are they grow in quicksand like areas near oceans even if they are logged down for fuel wood they have the tendency to regenerate themselves ( just like the phoenix) when they are touched by sea water again mangroves line the entire coast of mumbai which goes upto some 1000 kms Humans as usual are at their best doing what thye have always been good at that is destroying the mangroves for persuing their acquaculture- fishy.. culture by cutting off the supply of fresh sea water to the mangroves. Check out some of these pictures which show the muddy area in between the beautiful greens which are natural protectors against storms and cyclones from the oceans. As most of you might be aware off that Mumbai the p...

Travel & living

This is the one channel that gives a nature lover like myself a real eyetonic and general knowledge about where , what is situated, especially good for those sodium lamped brains like myself who just refuse to love the beauty of geography. I really want to share the brilliance of this channel. The host roamed around with the New Zealand prime minister just like you would roam around with your childhood friend in a new place when you come down to meet her at her hometown. The brilliance of this episode was that it showed the PM - a woman- so carefree down to earth but yet with a never ending zeal for anything and everything. I learnt about a new therapy that is offered by the Kiwis- Thrill therapy- consisting of boating in a motor boat at speeds ranging from very stable and steady to high rash speed just to de stress person- methodology: from no stress to high stress and then reaching ground. a ride which i really was dying to have but couldnt as i was watching it on TV. Then the Brill...

Help for putting up google search on your blog?

So i came to know about this google search engine that could be placed on my blog using which all the visitors could search the stuff right from my blog. So i decided to give it a shot but going to the recommended link however google failed to warn me that i had to be professionally intelligent and computer language savvy to install it as try as i might i couldnt get the darned thing as i dint really know the basics of html. So i took the help of my bro who is studying MCA and knows a lot of shit about computer progammimg. If you also want to instal it and are unable to do it you can take the consultation of this expert kid whom you can contact at back2thebeast@gmail.com and in return you can give him a minimum of $5 for his expertise.

The joys of being temporarily unemployed

waking up at 11.30 am! ........ watching tv till 1.00 pm then pondering over having something gooooooooood for lunch finally having whatever was cooked without bothering of the nutritional and physical impacts of such boring food that is cooked by a maid........ then take a newspaper and place thy booty on that armchair which has been basking itself to the right temperature in the winter sun, sit down and wallah the ecstasy of the warm sun seeping through the skin to make me feel just right amount of coziness while the world races by worrying about how theyll mange to get out of the office to meet their girl friends/ boyfriends or friends or parents after or during office hours. As a i close my eyes i can see the colourful circles of rainbows in my eyes as i sit in the afternoon sun and feel sleepy again, so i pick up the blanket which had been warming itself up in the sun and reach for my bed sitting on car tyres and a plank of wood made by some one really close to me and slip inside ...

Venice of the east- UDAIPUR- city of lakes

Udaipur city is one of the best hill stations in India though some of you might be not in the mood to believe this. Most of us Indians who are not from Rajasthan state which also gives shelter to the great Thar desert. Then comes the obvious conclusion that Rajasthan is a desert like place all over and apart from sand and dry heat plus cactus, this is where we have gone wrong. When I came to Udaipur for my one and a half year debacle with an NGO job i just saw how wrong i was. The place has beautiful lakes spread out all over the city which also fulfill the drinking water requirement of its people. In addition it has settled right among the Arravali /\/\/\/\/\/\/\ range. So it has the most beautiful treasure of biodiversity and every nature lover -indian or foreign should drop by and try out the following scenic places. one more wrong notion that i would like to nip in the bud is that of Rains- rainy season is the most beautiful in the region that just adds to the sheen of the green i...

Ecoturism in Udapiur, Rajasthan

Udaipur city is one of the best hill stations in India though some of you might be not in the mood to believe this. Most of us Indians who are not from Rajasthan state which also gives shelter to the great Thar desert. Then comes the obvious conclusion that Rajasthan is a desert like place all over and apart from sand and dry heat plus cactus, this is where we have gone wrong. When I came to Udaipur for my one and a half year debacle with an NGO job i just saw how wrong i was. The place has beautiful lakes spread out all over the city which also fulfill the drinking water requirement of its people. In addition it has settled right among the Arravali /\/\/\/\/\/\/\ range. So it has the most beautiful treasure of biodiversity and every nature lover -indian or foreign should drop by and try out the following scenic places. one more wrong notion that i would like to nip in the bud is that of Rains- rainy season is the most beautiful in the region that just adds to the sheen of the green...

Uncle Sam's Pizza

Udaipur - well known as the CITY OF LAKES didnot have a genuine Pizza outlet till November 07. Come 2008 and on my way from the railway station of Udaipur i see a shining board amongst some dirty travel boards. I stopped my friend immediately and we went back to check if it was really genuine! So we went back and found those round- without back support shiny little stools or chairs if you want to call them and some 4 young men eagerly searching our faces to check if we fell in the window shoppers group or just curious passers by. So we placed a delicious order of Vegi delight pizza and and some Garlic cheese bread with Jalapeno topping. So they seemed to have authentic ovens for pizza and when it came out i ll tell you how it looked and smelled but you gotta try it on your own to believe me. The waitor came with the pizza in a thermocol plate and nonbiodegradable plastic glass. Apart from that The small mushrooms just tender enough to melt in the mouth, the Green capsicum, and the oran...