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कालचक्र

दिवस सरला झाली रात्र

अनंत फिरते हे कालचक्र

अंधाराच्या कुशीत उगवे

हळूच प्रणय राज sudhakar


वसंत जाऊनी ग्रीष्म आला

सोनफुलांनी बहावा सजला

हरेक झुबका उधळे रंग पिवळा

पर्णहीन वृक्षाने हरवला हिरवा


भेट प्रिये त्या झाडाखाली 

पुष्पवर्षाव वाट पाहे तुझी

बैस शेजारी कुसुम शय्येवरी

दोघ करू गुजगोष्टी रात्र सारी


मंद हवा स्पर्शानी भारावली

जादू तुझी की या चांदण्याची

वाटे संपूच नये हा बहर कधी

थांबेल का ही वेळ थोडीतरी


तू जाशील निघुन भल्यापहाटे

भेट आजची, झाले स्वप्न खरे

ऋतू मिलनाचा समीप आहे

अशी चोरून भेट शेवटची बरे !

                                              


आहिस्ता

फूल नही रुत ए बहार लायी थी जिंदगी में

छोड़कर मुझे जाना है, जाइये आहिस्ता आहिस्ता ।


उम्र बित जाती है जहनको समझने में

आगाज़ ही उलझने बढा रहा है , आहिस्ता आहिस्ता ।


क्यो तुझसे दिलकशी, अनजान हु मैं

इंतज़ार अब जहर बन रहा है, आहिस्ता आहिस्ता ।


खुदा है करामाती, देर क्यों नतीजेमे

वक्त उम्मीद कोताह कर रहा है, आहिस्ता आहिस्ता ।


क्यो जवान यादोँसे रुक्सत करू तुम्हे

मुकाबला मौत जीतेगी तय है, पर आहिस्ता आहिस्ता ।

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आश्ना


रात घनी, और शजर जुगनू भरा

तले उसके प्यार हमारा बाहों भरा। 


अहसास बने जेर-ए-लब सासोंका

तेरे होठोंका प्याला, मदहोशी भरा। 


सवारू चनबेली के फूल से लदा जुड़ा

साँसोमे भरलू महक, जिस्म खुशबू भरा। 


थामलु चेहरा हाथमे, फिर चुमलू माथा

एक वादा करलू आंखोसे, ऐतबार भरा। 


पलकोमे अश्क खूब सजा कर रखना 

जुदाई का हर लम्हा, तेरा तसव्वुर भरा। 


उजाला कर रहा रात को अलविदा

न जा, मेरा दिल तो अबभी नही भरा। 

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Checkered Vanda




Checkered Vanda

Checkered Vanda is a commonly occurring, native perennial orchid from India. It has a presence in many other countries neighboring to India as well, such as Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. 


Checkered Vanda is a medium to large sized orchid with a climbing stem. Leaves are linear, narrow, 3-toothed at the tip. The plant blooms with an inflorescence carrying 5 to 12, fragrant, long-lived flowers. Flowers are 4-5 cm across. The sepals and petals have undulating margins and are pale green, yellowish green or somewhat bluish with checkered lines of olive-brown on the inner surface [1]. The outer surface is white while the lip is violet-purple with a white margin, and usually deeper purple towards the tip. 

Checkered Vanda is known for its medicinal use in curing dyspepsia, bronchitis, inflammations, piles, and hiccup.



Nomenclature:

Common name: Checkered Vanda, Vanda Orchid

Regional Names:
Bengali: rasna
• Hindi: वांदा Vanda, Nai, perasara
• Kannada: bandanike, badanika, jkeevanthige
• Marathi: aasna
• Oriya: ilkum
• Sanskrit: atirasa, bhujangakshi, dronagandhika
• Tamil: kantanakuli
• Telugu: chittiveduri, kanapabandanika
• Urdu: Banda

Botanical name: Vanda tessellata Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)

Synonyms: Epidendrum tessellatum, Vanda roxburghii, Cymbidium tessellatum




Reference:

[1] http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Checkered%20Vanda.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanda_tessellata








Rang De tu Mohe "Mehuwa"


Rang De tu Mohe "Mehuwa"


Madhuca longifolia is an Indian tropical tree found largely in the central and north Indian plains and forests. It is commonly known as mahua, mahwa.It is a fast-growing tree that grows to approximately 20 meters in height, possesses evergreen or semi-evergreen foliage. It is adapted to arid environments, being a prominent tree in tropical mixed deciduous forests in India.


The tree is considered a boon by the tribals who are forest dwellers and keenly conserve this tree.  It produces between 20 and 200 kg of seeds annually per tree, depending on maturity. Most of the leaves fall from February to April, and during that time, the musky-scented flowers appear. The surrounding looks serene due to the yellowish dried leaves and the brown branch colors. The whole place turns green once the spring starts somewhere in the month of April. The transition from the shading the leaves to the new green leaves is spectacular to watch due the color change.



 

Flowers hang in close bunches of a dozen or so from the end of the gnarled, grey branchlets. It is at night that the tree blooms and at dawn each short-lived flower fall to the ground. A couple of months after the flowering period the fruit opens. They are fleshy, green berries, quite large and containing from one to four shiny, brown seeds. 



The delicious and nutritive flowers are used to produce an alcoholic drink in tropical India. Flowers are fermented to produce the alcoholic drink mahuwa, a country liquor. The main ingredients used for making it are chhowa gud (granular molasses) and dried mahuwa flowers. The liquor produced from the flowers is largely colourless, with a whitish tinge and not very strong. The taste is reminiscent of sake with a distinctive smell of mahua flowers. It is inexpensive and the production is largely done in home stills.




Tribals of Bastar in Chhattisgarh and peoples of Orissa, Santhals of Santhal Paraganas (Jharkhand), Koya tribals of North-East Andhra Pradesh and tribals of North Maharashtra consider the tree and the mahuwa drink as part of their cultural heritage. Mahuwa is an essential drink for tribal men and women during celebrations. It is considered holy by many tribal communities because of its medical usefulness.

Info and some images from: Wikipedia and flowers of India



Butterflies at RSP Nursery, Rourkela

Common Pierrot

Butterflies at RSP Nursery, Rourkela


Place: RSP Sector 4 Nursery
Date: 21st Feb 2015

Bush Hopper

Open wing Chocolate pansy

Under wing of Chocolate pansy
Common Sailor


Common Crow

Dark Grass Blue




Butterflies cited:


Chocolate Pansy
Peacock Pansy
Lemon Pansy

Lime
Common emigrant
Common Mormon
Blue Mormon
Tailed Jay
Blue Jay

Common Hedge Blue
Psyche
Common Pierrot
Pea Blue
Dark Grass Blue
Monkey Puzzle
Plain Tiger
Blue/Glassy Tiger
Common Crow
Great Egg fly
Common Palmfly
Commander
Common Sailer

Giant red Eye
White Snow Flat
Bush Hopper



Charming poppies



Charming poppies

Some charming and vibrant poppy flower macros captured in RSP Nursery along with the honeybees and other insects. 
The common poppy is a wild flower and has been a symbol of death and rebirth due its vibrant red color. It is worn in many countries on Remembrance Day in order to commemorate those who lost their lives during warfare (Trench warfare which took place in the poppy fields of Flanders)


Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colorful flowers. subfamily: Papaveroideae and family: Papaveraceae. The petals are showy, may be of almost any color and some have markings.

The flowers have 4 to 6 petals, many stamens forming a conspicuous whorl in the center of the flower.


One species of poppy, Papaver somniferum, produces edible seeds and is also the source of the crude drug opium which contains powerful medicinal alkaloids such as morphine and has been used since ancient times as ananalgesic and a source of narcotic, medicinal and recreational drugs. It is grown in eastern and southern Asia, and South Eastern Europe.




The bees are mad after the poppy flower. Many bees simultaneously sucks the nectar from a single flower and flower uses bee to spread pollen.


Poppies can be over 4 feet tall with flowers up to six inches across. Poppies are in full bloom late spring to early summer.



Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy
http://www.flowersofindia.net/risearch/search.php?query=poppy&stpos=0&stype=AND



Wandering Destination: Regional museum of Natural history, Bhubaneshwar



Wandering Destination: Regional museum of Natural history, Bhubaneshwar


The Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhubaneshwar with exhibits mostly on plants, animals and geology of the eastern region of India (especially Odisha) and some guest exhibits related to other parts of the world.  

An aesthetically designed building and landscape sets the tone for an informal and joyful learning experience about our natural heritage and the importance of its conservation. 


Entrance to the Gallery of RMNH: The goal of the museum is to impart non-formal environmental education to the public in general and the student community in particular in order to inculcate the awareness about the importance of flora, fauna and subsequent conservation of our natural resources


 The galleries emphasize the conservation of nature and natural resources while depicting ecological interrelationship among plants and animals. It offers an exciting opportunity for hands on and minds on activity to interact with the exhibits under recreated environment to attain the knowledge about the harmony of plants and animals and their interrelationships in nature.



The museum attempts to showcase the vibrant biodiversity of Orissa, the NorthEast and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands depicting their richness under one roof thereby making people aware of the natural heritage of the state and beyond. Visually challenged students can feel the exhibits of animals on the premises. The museum provides an extracurricular activity for schools and promotes environmental awareness. 

A skeleton of Baleen Whale has been installed in the museum, which is supposed to be largest for any museum in India.




Gallery also has some exclusive paintings of landscapes, some scaled models among other exhibits. In picture: Beach of Andaman and Nicobar

Butterfly Exhibits:




Gallery hosts two exhibits on the common butterflies found in Odisha. 





Gallery has one exhibit on the moths and butterflies found in Madagascar. 



History of Regional Museums Establishment [1]

Realising that, as a National Institution, the National Museum of Natural History has an obligation to the entire country in respect of creating environment awareness and promoting conservation education, it was decided during the VII Plan to have regional offices in the form of Regional Museum of Natural History (RMNH) in different parts of the country in a phased manner so as to extend the activities of NMNH at regional and state levels. It was undertaken by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India.


Accordingly, the first such Regional office was initiated in the 'Southern Region' in 1995 at Mysore (Karnataka State). The second one was developed for the ' Central Region' in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) in 1997.The third Regional Museum in the 'Eastern Region' of the country was established in Bhubaneswar (Orissa) and operationalised in 2004. The fourth Regional office was established in “Western Region” in Sawai Madhopur in 2008 and it is expected to be operational shortly. A fifth Regional office in “North-Eastern Region” is expected to be established soon in Gangtok (Sikkim).



Location and conveyance:

Planetarium shares the compound fence with Regional Museum of Natural history, and is located on Sachivalaya marg in Acharya Vihar square (Chowk). From AG square share auto takes five rupees only while from CRP square it takes ten rupees.





References:

[1] http://nmnh.nic.in/Bhubaneswar.htm
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Museum_of_Natural_History,_Bhubaneswar