Book 76: Point of Law by Clinton McKinzie

Book 76: Point of Law

Author: Clinton McKinzie (USA) 🇺🇸

Genre: Thriller 

Set in: USA 🇺🇸

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"There are two things worth fighting for, son. The things you can win and the things worth dying for."

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Matilda

Watched Matilda the Musical, a gift from my mom and brother at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai. I loved the dynamic background changes that happened as the scenes progressed. Beauty and poetry were expected but what surprised me was that there were few scary moments and some of pure awe like the swinging scene below (no photography is allowed so this is from the #nmacc Instagram handle). As I walked towards the exit after the standing ovation for the crew, I overheard a pre-teen tell her mother, "At least it was better than The Sound of Music." Well, that left me speechless 😞

Book 75: The Hidden Life of Trees - What they feel, how they communicate by Peter Wohlleben

Book 75: The Hidden Life of Trees - What they feel, how they communicate 

Author: Peter Wohlleben (Germany) 🇩🇪

Genre: Nature

Set in: Germany 🇩🇪 USA 🇺🇸 Canada 🇨🇦 France 🇫🇷 Sweden 🇸🇪 Japan 🇯🇵 Finland 🇫🇮 Russia 🇷🇺

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Don't parents want their offspring to become independent as quickly as possible? Trees, at least, would answer this question with a resounding no, and recent science backs then up. Scientists have determined slow growth when the tree is young is a prerequisite if a tree is to live to a ripe old age. As people, we easily lose sight of what is truly old for a tree, because modern forestry targets a maximum age of 80 to 120 years before plantation trees are cut down and turned into cash.

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37 leopards and more

37 leopards and more at the Jhalana forest museum in Jaipur. On the day of our visit, leopards attacked two of the safari guides in the wee hours of the morning so we were short of drivers and guides. Opened in 2018, Jhalana isn't a glamourous tourist spot in Jaipur as it's open only after 4.30 pm and sightings of the elusive cats happen usually at the end of the two-hour drives through dry deciduous forests in 44 degrees heat in the summer. We spotted two females. Unlike Ranthambore, other mammals are few, especially the black-faced baboons, the leopard's main prey. With 37 leopards in a small habitat it's a hard battle for territories and prey. We did find spotted deer, sambhar, neel gai and hares. With May starts the mating season of peacocks so they were all in their feathered glory, dancing and prancing, unfazed by the wildcats. 

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