ಕ್ಷಣಪ್ರಭಾ - Kshanaprabhaa

I had been to the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens last month a couple of times, primarily to capture on my camera, the blooming flowers of spring time and the re-energized little birds and animals there, and this is what I could manage (click on each of them for enlarged versions) :

After years of gap, I had the honour of talking to one of the most wonderful human beings I have ever come across till date, Shri. L. S. Raman (LSR). A well known Hindi Lecturer who taught at the Navodaya Composite College at Channarayapatna, has been for a long time, one of the best authorities on Hindi language and literature in Karnataka. After retiring in 1993, he kept himself among little kids, something that he enjoyed, by joining as an advisor and teacher at the Chaitanya Vidya Shala primary school. He was very deeply involved with the school till 2006, after which he moved to Chennai, where he is settled now, with his family. What was striking with the conversations I had with him this week was that, although nearing 80, he still has the same levels of affection, memory, clarity of thoughts and expression, which made him the favorite among his students. I still remember him teaching Hindi, English and sometimes even Social Sciences to us at Chaitanya Vidya Shala. I don...

Arnoldous Mauritius Blignaut, the superstar all-round genius, has returned to the Zimbabwe national cricket team after a gap of almost 5 years, and looks in great shape. If he can reproduce the brutal blitzkrieg he brought out a couple of months ago in the Zimbabwean national T20 league for Tuskers against the Mountaineers, then international teams beware! Here's what he did that day: Andy Blignaut turns it on for Tuskers from hmvprasanna on Vimeo . Hoping for a couple of such sterling performances from him in the upcoming World T20 Championships in the West Indies...