Hundred thirty five

Why we have diversity? animals, culture, language and many more. It is evolution. Evolution's ingredients are natural selection and isolation.
I grew up in a small village in India. India has over 1600 languages. The food habits, dressing, rituals and culture vary dramatically, even within a 50 km radius. There is a huge cultural variation between state to state, north to south and east to west. But now, mobility of the population has increased because of the job and availability of easy transportation. Earlier marriages took place within 20 to 30 km and all relatives stayed closed by. This mixing of the population is eroding cultural diversity. Languages are disappearing, all are speaking a common language. Is it good or bad?  I am not sure; I believe that we are going along with the changing time. 

Seventy three

I missed two days of blogging. "Routine is the enemy of time" was the comment of a cyclist, who quit his job to cycling. According to him, if you fall into regular time fly fast and you will never notice that. Partially I agree with him. But routines make your life easy and you can focus on other things in life. We have more things to do than a snake. That is what my daughter said. We were rescuing a  baby snake of the common Krait. The snake was small but very aggressive.  After a few attempts, we were able to move the snake to a safe place. I was wondering why was that so aggressive. My daughter said, all other animals need to defend enemy, eat and sleep and they are not humans. Humans have a lot of other things to do than just survival. I was stunned to hear this thing from a 10-year-old. 

Kashmir

Visited Kashmir in April 2014. One of the most memorable trip. Loved the landscape, people and food. Few photos from the trip are here. I and my camera failed to depict the extraordinary beauty of the place, this is a humble attempt.