Painted Storks

Republic Day

Poser

If a baby duck is a duckling,

What is inkling an offspring of? 

Is sapling the son of sap?
 Do mings give birth to mingling?

Of course, gosling is a young gos (I mean goose),

So is a quisling a quasi quis?

A verbose and turgid book review

Margaret Atwood’s latest preternatural SF creation is the palindromic Maddaddam. It presents a near-future bizarre post-apocalyptic scenario. A morbid and harsh narrative, it depicts canine consumption, coprophagia, cannibalism (echoes of Voltaire’s Candide – gluteal gluttony), and other heteroclitic concepts. There are frakensteinian genetically-engineered priapic humans, as goofy and mystical as the Silfen populating Peter F. Hamilton’s Commonwealth Trilogy. Incidentally, Maddaddam is the third in the series, spatially parallel and not a sequel; hope there are more to come.

However, what makes this dystopic novel, amidst the degradation of mankind, a rollicking read, is the sustained and subtle humour. Names of some individuals would appear familiar in Asterix’s Gaulish milieu.

 

A nice desi touch is the beatification of the environmental activist Vandana Shiva and tiger conservationist Fateh Singh Rathore.

Read it.

Stork

If storks bring human babies, who brings stork babies?

Do painted storks bring painted babies? 

Snowy the Egret

Egret - a type of heron

Surface Tension

Mist condensing on alfalfa (lucerne) leaves

Four-leafed

Hairy

Fauna around GLA Univ

Caw! Caw!

The Rhesus Factor

Lone Puppy

Loofah

One day I will be a grand loofah

Mustard Fields

Outside GLA University

Going to Pot

Mary Jane

Passerine Passion

Lonely... I'm so lonely (in a squeaky voice akin to Akon)

Hi babe! May I join you?

Any Taliban types around? Any moral-policing vigilantes lurking in the undergrowth?

Is it okay if I come closer? Lovely view of the guava orchards.

Mmmm, you smell nice. Had a dust-bath today?

Parrot Porn. XXX rated!

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