Somewhere in a certain cranny of your home, lives a little creature that’s on the lookout for mosquitoes and flies. She’s spinning up some of the strongest known natural fibres to trap these insects that often keep us up at night by singing terrible tunes right into our ears. She’s none other than your friendly […]

Flame of the Forest Flame of the forest, dhak or palaash, is a forest tree that bears bright and large reddish-orange flowers. When in full bloom, the tree has no leaves, and this accentuates its red crown that appears to be on fire. Many blooming palaash trees together make the forest look ablaze; hence the […]

If you watch birds for long enough (and even a few minutes every other day counts), you will quickly learn to tell them apart by their size and shape—and even more easily so by the colours they sport. Today, as we dive deeper and deeper into the digital world, we associate colours with their CMYK […]