Author: Khushwant Singh
Suddhasattwa Basu/
Painter: Suddhasattwa Basu
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 132
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172254716
Description
This is the diary of a nature lover patterned after the traditional 'Baramasi' of Indian poets. It tells you of trees, flowers, fruits, birds, snakes, insects and animals to be seen during the twelve months of the year.
It also tells of the many fairs and festivals celebrated in the country; how clouds are formed and what their shapes and movements mean; why hailstorms come in spring and early summer and not in winter; how birds communicate with each other and why their calls vary with the seasons.
With the descriptions of nature are included poems on natural phenomena by poets like Kalidasa, Guru Nanak, Meer Taqi Meer, Ghalib, Akbar Illahabadi, Rabindranath Tagore, Rudyard Kipling and many others.
Nature Watch is the joint effort of one of India's finest painters of natural phenomena and one of the country's leading novelists and short-story writers whose series The World of Nature as highly rated on Indian television.
Contents
How it All Began
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December