Issue 91 · November 2026
Birding Season
This month we travel slowly through India’s winter wetlands — Keoladeo Ghana at Bharatpur, the wide lagoon of Chilika, and the quieter marshes where migrants rest after long flights. The season asks for early gates, soft voices, and time spent looking rather than collecting names.
COVER STORY
Bharatpur at dawn, not at noon — Why the park opens its best chapter before the sun is high, and how a cycle-rickshaw pace changes what you see.
In this issue
Editor’s letter: Birding Season — A note on arriving quietly when the water is full of winter guests.
Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary — Keoladeo Ghana National Park: history, habitat, and the birds that still define a Rajasthan winter.
Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary — Salim Ali’s islets on the Cauvery, still small, still crowded with life.
Chilika and the boats that know the birds — Lagoon channels, village boatmen, and the patience of Mangalajodi.
One wetland that is not famous yet — Haiderpur on the Ganga floodplain: a Ramsar site without the crowds.
What November migrants actually do — Feeding, roosting, and recovering — the real work of a winter bird.
A hide, a notebook, no checklist boast — Birding that prefers attention over a longer list.
A guest’s first pelican — A visitor letter from the water’s edge.
Sanctuary rules and the gates — Practical notes for Bharatpur, Chilika, and common sense at any wetland.
A village on the edge of the water — Mangalajodi, where former hunters became the lagoon’s best guides.
Tour of Vijayawada – Explore The City Of Victory
Wildlife of Kerala
Three Days in Mumbai, Not a Checklist
The Town You Sleep In
Why the base town shapes a monsoon waterfall trip more than any single fall, what to look for, and towns in Karnataka, Kerala and Goa worth considering.
One village ghat upriver
Train versus road that week
Markets before the 20th, not on it
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