Flowers after a rain

Yellow and red hues in the flower sprinkled with water droplets after a light drizzle.The Green background adds to the contrast.

Triplets in purple

Go Kiss the world

Go kiss the world is a literally translation of "Ja duniya ko chumlo". "Go Kiss the world" by Subroto Bagchi is a great book to read not just for young professionals but for everyone. Although the book is all about Life lessons for the Young Professional, it serves as nuggets of wisdom for people of any age.



The book is autobiographical and traces the life of Subroto Bagchi from being born in rural India to go onto co-found Mindtree, a very successful software services company.



The book is split into 3 parts, each reflecting the 3 different phases of Subroto Bagchi's life. The first part is all about growing up in rural India and travellingfrom one city to another, one town to another town and one village to another. The second part is about growing from a clerk in a government office to making Wipro Grow. The third part is about taking the risk and plunging into the brave world of Entrepreneurship to form MindTree.

Apart from its obvious autobiographical appeal, it also is a very good book to see how a person like Subroto Bagchi thinks and lives. May the gardner make more flowers to bloom.

Yellow zerbera - see the effect of the shadow

Yellow zerbera - see the effect of the shadow. The shadow from the overhanging branch is causing a nice effect on the flower.

Floral decorations for onam

It was onam on August 27th this year. And Kerala is the place to be when Onam is being celebrated. Floral decorations are an integral part of Onam festivities. We were lucky enough to capture this in front of a temple in Thiruvananthapuram. It depicts Yashoda with Krishna.

Onam is complete with onam sadhya the traditional Kerala meal...feast your eyes on how it looks.


Rice forms the main part of the food.

Orange rose-close range photography

The orange rose in the garden seems to look good. It was another attempt at close range photography.

If the camera is very close, the image will be no better than a blur of color. The zoom has to be used carefully to get the picture.

the proper angle has to be selected, to avoid too much shadow. The time of the day and the position of the sun will also influence outdoor pictures greatly.

Bramhakamla or night queen in the garden

The Bramha kamala or night queen blooms at night. It is a fragrant flower that generally fades by the morning.

It was my first attempt at night photography, so i should say it is rather ok.

This time only two of these flowers bloomed in the garden. Generally the Bramhakamala is found in larger groups.

Daswala, zerbera (gerbera) and ooty flower

The yellow zerbera or gerbera has a light yellow shade. A ant can be seen on the flower at he lower right end of the flower.
The next flower is a purple colored daswala or daffodil. The Daswala or dasvala comes in numerous colours.


The flower which we have been calling as ooty flower, whose name (either common name or botanical name is not known to me--let me know if anybody is aware of it.)
Flowers of all colors.

Flowers in the garden

The following pictures are from the garden. These are the flowers that were got from potted plants.

Red Zerbera
A pink Zerbera

Blue buttons