Yeh Mera India anthem...

The country celebrates the 65^th Independence Day tomorrow and to commemorate the event, Animal Planet has come up celebrating the incredible wildlife and natural diversity of India through a month-long programming slot Yeh Mera India, staring on August 15^th every night at 8 pm.  Thus promoting the special programming that suppose to line-up rejoicing the country’s iconic and enchanting wildlife, epic landscapes and colorful natural beauty, the channel has launched an anthem, which run as a three minute multi-lingual song, composed and performed by renowned music personalities like Lesle Lewis, Shaan, Mathandi and Monalia.

The anthem is a great tribute to the wildlife splendor of India which will fascinate everybody and this high-energy anthem cheers the spirit of freedom in three most widely spoken languages of country: the Hindi, Tamil and Bengali.

Check the incredible anthem I posed below and to reveal more on the charismatic animals and distinct species of India and the Himalayans and Northeast and exotic terrains... watch the program airing every night at 8pm from August 15 to Sep 15 on Animal Planet. Jai Hind!

Love - III

Image: Google

Love creates wound
and heals at same;
only the heart to blame.

Love has its aspects
of smile, of the sun
and grim reaper.

Love emphasis
the spirit of insight
and inspires a poet inside.

Love entice;
and enrich the heart
in the process of unison.

A day with baby Barath

I could count it as one of a blissful day in my life and the four and a half months old made my day indeed pleasure and impressive watching through his activities of innocent smiles, laughter, rollover and seldom sweet cries. One of my cousins came home last week with her baby boy, after long time and since delivery; and thinking about our pet she avoids visiting us and yet days before going to her in-laws house she decided to visit us and stayed over a night.

Me and Nephew Barath

I ever seen a kid like him so cheerful and enthusiastic and almost smile looking at everyone; he’s very quiet while sleeping and laughter aloud once wakeup and only cries when hunger strikes… otherwise he’s happy playing and rolling around. I had abundant opportunity to capture each of his activity and gesture, almost adorable and cute, to stay never ever away from memories and cherish each time checking over my pictures on him.

He’s named as Barathan alias Barath, but he has many nicknames called by each other and the common one is ‘Bujju’ and during the first 2 month I heard he was very very quite unlike other kids who used to cry often. Huh! He sees everything quite opening his eyes and even began to watch television without blinking a second… his tiny fingers and pristine feet make me wonder how many miles and summit this infant gonna patch its footprint despite stroll.

Pls. take a minute of your time to check the photo slideshow below and I hope you all will enjoy few of the photos - from the many taken on this adorable infant, wearing innocent smiles and expression.

Click the full screen button on the slideshow bar for enlarge view:

விலகிடு உயிரை / Depart my life

Image: Google

உயிரே என்  உயிரே

என்னுள் நீ எங்கே?

தேடினேன்  காணவில்லை;

ஆனாலும் விலகிடு

இரவு  விடியும்  முன்.

போதும் இந்த துயரம்;

படுத்தும் உறங்கவில்லை

புரண்டும் படுக்கவில்லை

உயிரே  விலகிடு

வலிகள் ஏதுமின்றி

என் நிழலே

என்னை சோதிக்கிறது;

குழம்பினேன் இரவில்

நிழலா இருளா என

விலகிடு உயிரை இருளில்.

பகலில்  புன்னகை

இரவினில் வெறுமனே

வியந்து நின்றது நெஞ்சம்;

விலகிடு உயிரை

நிலவில்லா நேரம் பார்த்து.

Translation in English follows:

My beloved life
where’re you in me
I searched like missing;
however depart me
the night before the dawn.

Enough the grief;
I slept without slumber
I laid without turnover
depart my life
without any pain.

My shadow
checking me;
I puzzled at night
over darken and shadow
depart my life, in darkness.

The smile of the day
just bare at night
the heart stumbled to stay;
depart my life
while there’s no moon.

Kumbakkarai Falls

Kumbakkarai Waterfalls is 9km from Periyakulam on the foot of Kodaikanal Hills and its one of a tourist attraction of Tamil Nadu and the water is consider as mineral and herbal rich. I have visited this place twice, but I couldn’t get near the waterfalls since it has a series of steps leading down from the road and I could only see a stream of water at a distance.

The water falls at two stages; the first stage collects water in huge rock recesses   which are named each after wild animals like tiger, elephant… and the second stage is the main waterfall which flows as Pambar River. Kumbakkarai serves as a base camp for the trekkers who venture in the hills of Kodaikanal, which is 12km from here through a walking trail… created by British in early 1800s when they discovered Kodaikanal to escape from the heat on plains. But I’m not sure about the Ghats road that some said about its laid lately.

The photos of the falls where taken during our first visit in 2006 and it was almost dry when visiting again the falls in 2009. The place is surrounded by thick forest and wild animals’ esp. elephants are most encountered here and on our second visit we find the place is protected by electric fencing. During monsoon and rainy the falls receives much water which also exposed to risk of skidding rocks and stroked by flashflood.