Cricket fever

As the best cricket teams slog in the Cricket World Cup 2015, there is a cricket frenzy at home...

Rubber trees of Kerala

Rubber tree is cultivated extensively in some parts of Kerala to extract Latex. It is one of the most economically important trees in Kerala...

Latex is a sticky, milky colloid drawn off by making incisions into the bark and collecting the fluid in vessels in a process called "tapping". The latex then is refined into rubber ready for commercial processing...

In India, commercial cultivation of natural rubber was introduced by the British planters. The first commercial Hevea plantations in India were established at Thattekadu in Kerala in 1902...

Rohan at 11 months

Eleven months old Rohan is crawling at great speed around the house...

Oh, and he also surprised us by walking a few wobbly steps...

I couldn't help photoshopping a guitar to this Jimi Hendrix pose...

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