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How Bats Have Evolved Wildly Different Echolocation Strategies for Acoustic Hunting

The Call Is a Weapon, Not Just a MapThe greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) emits calls at a precise 83 kHz and adjusts that frequency in real time as it closes in on a moth, compensating for the Doppler shift its own flight speed creates, the way a radar operator…

Times Life · Aug 19

Five Salt Lakes and Flats Across India That Rival Sambhar and Rann of Kutch for Travel

Sambhar Lake, Rajasthan, India's Largest Inland Saline LakeMost Indian travellers who know Sambhar know it only as a name on a map between Jaipur and Ajmer. The lake itself, roughly 230 square kilometres at full spread, sits in a shallow basin that has been harvested for salt since at least…

Times Life · Aug 8

Why a Heritage Train Journey Remains the Best Way to Travel India With Older Parents

The Speed You Give Up Is the Thing You Came ForYour mother has never once asked to take a flight to Udaipur. She has, however, asked three times to take the Palace on Wheels. There is a difference between those two requests that most travel planning ignores completely. A heritage…

Times Life · Jul 20

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What Rann Utsav in Gujarat Is Really Like When the Festival Crowds Arrive at Kutch

The cold arrives before the moon doesYou book the tent cottage in October, when the Rann Utsav website loads slowly and the photographs look exactly like every other photograph you have seen of it. White. Flat. Luminous. You assume you are prepared. You are not prepared for the cold. The…

Times Life · Jul 11

7 Overnight Train Routes Across India That Are Worth Booking for the Scenic Ride Alone

Vivek Express: Dibrugarh to KanyakumariThe longest train route in India covers 4,286 kilometres and takes roughly 82 hours end to end. Most passengers board for a segment, not the full stretch, but those who ride the overnight portions through Odisha and Andhra Pradesh get something rare: a train moving through…

Times Life · Jul 5

Oldest yet fossils of a plant-eating dinosaur found in Rajasthan

In a paper published recently in Scientific Reports, scientists from IIT Roorkee have characterised dinosaur fossils from the middle-Jurassic period, found in the Thar desert near the Jaisalmer Basin by the Geological Survey of India. They discovered that they had uncovered remains of a sauropod dinosaur, which is the same…

The Hindu · Sep 3, 2023

New spider from Thar desert named after Malayali arachnologist

Pseudomogrus sudhii inhabits dry grass blades of the desert

The Hindu · Jun 23, 2022

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In Frames | Broiling Churu

By noon, the broiling heat forces people in this Thar gateway indoors

The Hindu · May 8, 2022

Thar review – Anil Kapoor’s violent cop thriller puts the punch in Rajasthan

There are hints of Sergio Leone and Cormac McCarthy in this Rajasthan-set mystery starring the actor and his son

The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2022

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