Recent Happenings
I just can't believe that it is almost end of Feb. There is loads to write about, but I am just going to rely on a few pictures to do the job :-).
A few weeks ago, DS attended a lovely talk by one of his favorite writers, Robert Kanigal, the author of The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan. He also enjoyed chatting with the author for a few minutes and was quite thrilled to hear his advice to think of MIT for Science Writing, which is one of the things DS is interested in pursuing.
DS with Robert Kanigal
He also auditioned for the national youth orchestra a couple of weeks ago (thanks to his sis for a much needed push to get him interested in auditioning) and got selected to be part of the orchestra. He was reluctant initially to add on the new orchestra in addition to the city orchestra that he was already part of, but the time management, juggling and balancing multiple interests is something he needs to learn with time.
He has been composing like *crazy*. Some of the tunes he has come up with in the recent weeks are quite impressive. His dad listens to a couple of DS' compositions quite frequently. THAT is a hard thing to accomplish with his dad who is so hard to impress :-)
DD attended the math olympiad camp for fun. She had a great 4 days at the camp in ISI, solving some cool problems ingeniously with her team and demoing them to the other students. The math olympiad team is not as strong as the teams in the US, although there were a few bright kids in the group here. She could not attend the entire camp as her university schedule clashed with that of the camp. While DD was having fun with other math geeks, DS and I kept ourselves busy doing a ton of birding and brainstorming ideas for his next research projects.
We had a grand time visiting Bannerghatta National Park! DS was in heaven with respect to his camera moments. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience of spotting some wonderful animals and watching them in the wild.....
Birding photos by DS, Archenia!
Some lovely shots of Green Bee Eater
We had a grand time visiting Bannerghatta National Park! DS was in heaven with respect to his camera moments. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience of spotting some wonderful animals and watching them in the wild.....
White Tiger
Black Bear
Tiger
Wild Cow
Leopard
His fav, Elephant! He has 'tons' of pictures of these guys :-)
Python
