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Photographed 31 October 2018, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Photographed 10 February 2023, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Consonance and dissonance.
I the body would be sharing certain events cached in its data files.
I shall remove the text if anybody feels hurt, offended or humiliated by its contents.
Thunderbirds Babu:
Thunderbirds Babu is the brains and brawn of the first Popular music troupe, rather Ganamela troupe in Trivandrum. He named it Thunderbirds, and hence he came to be known as Thunderbirds Babu. His name is familiar to most senior musicians in Kerala. He preferred to render the old Hindi melodies of Kishore Kumar, Muhammed Rafi, Mukesh, Manna Dey and Saigal. But, more than his singing abilities, his acuity in introducing ingenious ideas and his efforts to implement them is what I admired the most.
It's a fact that most musicians are tender-hearted and Babuchettan, as I called him, is no exception. Despite being a humble, loving, poor soul, many people despised him for unknown reasons.
I realize that he lived at least 25 years ahead of his generation. Those jealous of him taunted him openly and in hiding. He often got blamed for others' mistakes, and the gentleman turned out a reprobate to many people who had only heard about him. Though I found him cheerful and lively, I have noticed that he often appeared lost in thoughts. I suspected his 'hyperactivity' to be his way of dealing with some problem or difficulties that occupied his mind, which probably kept bothering him.
I met him when he formed 'The Rubbish Orchestra'. Rubbish is the name suggested by the great Indian sculptor Kanayi Kunhiraman when we approached him seeking a name suggestion for a music troupe that sings Indian language songs and plays Western instrumental music. Without a second thought, he quipped, " Rubbish", and it got stuck. Being active and dynamic, Babuchettan had the knack to approach the right people the right way, so there was no shortage of programs.
I was one of the two tenderfoots in the team, and I met most of the senior artists of those days through Rubbish Orchestra. Being very elder to me, probably my father's age, he considered me a child and yet regarded me like all the other artists. Still, I have noticed that he was a bit careful and seldom reserved when communicating with me.
Once during a rehearsal break, when other artists left for refreshments and smoking, I asked him why he couldn't try 'Mere Naina Sawan Bhado', which is one of my favourites. With a mischievous look and a smile, he turned his head to gaze outside through the window. I thought he either ignored my question or got distracted by something when he suddenly started humming to set the correct pitch. He sang it beautifully without any accompaniment as I listened and watched in awe. Once over, I shook his hand, and he said that it was the first time he was singing it for a 'listener'. As he rendered it superbly, I requested that he add the song to his song list. He refused as he considered his rendition of that song not up to the mark.
'The Rubbish' slowly disbanded following an album release, on which some members of the band suffered substantial monetary losses. Being the production organizer, he was blamed for that too, and he slowly vanished from the scene. I thought he would soon rise like a Phoenix, but while travelling on a bus, somebody hurled a stone that hit his eye, and he lost vision in one eye. He stopped singing, and the bright, vivacious man lived a detached, secluded life consequently.
Later in life, when he badly needed someone's care, a lady less than half his age fell in love with him, and they started living together. Of course, he was ridiculed for that too. Eventually, he died without making headlines. Nobody cared.
Mere Naina Sawan Bhado: Mere Naina Sawan Bhado
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Photographed 16 October 2019, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Our sighting of this Citrine Wagtail seemed to excite our guide, although eBird indicates that it is not uncommon in Thailand. We saw this immature while on a boat trip at the Bueng Boraphet wetlands in Nakhon Sawan province. As both the common name and the species part of the binomial suggest, breeding adults have bright yellow on the head and breast. Citrine Wagtail has a wide range in Asia and Europe.
Photographed 10 February 2023, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Photographed 21 February 2018, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Photographed 10 February 2023, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Red-wattled Lapwing is a colourful member of the Plovers and Lapwings family (Charadriidae), one that we saw in several locations in Thailand. This individual was in the Bueng Boraphet Non-hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan province. The species ranges across a wide swath from eastern Turkey to Singapore off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula (with a few reports from nearby on the large island of Sumatra, Indonesia).
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According to many European old maps, the river is named as Menam or Mae Nam, the Thai word for river (Me or Mae is "Mother", Nam is "Water"). The name Chao Phraya is a Thai feudal title, which can be translated as General or Lord. In the English-language media in Thailand the name is often translated as River of Kings.
The cities along the Chao Phraya are Nakhon Sawan, Uthai Thani, Chainat, Singburi, Ang Thong, Ayutthaya, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Bangkok and Samut Prakan, listed from north to south. These cities are among the most historically significant and densely populated settlements of Thailand precisely because of their access to the waterway.
A big thank you to Mr. Wiki.. :-)
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La Chao Praya (thaï แม่น้ำเจ้าพระยา), ou Ménam Chao Phraya, est le plus important fleuve de Thaïlande après le Mékong et la Salween. C'est aussi le seul à couler entièrement dans le pays, dont il constitue encore aujourd'hui l'axe majeur de transport et de commerce. Il se forme au confluent des rivières Ping et Nan et s'écoule vers le sud pendant 372 km, avant de se jeter dans le golfe de Thaïlande. La vallée de la Chao Praya est une grande région productrice de riz.
Le mot Ménam signifie « rivière » en thaï : ce mot est formé de deux éléments : me signifiant « mère » et nam « eau ». Chao Phraya est un terme honorifique thaï, que l'on peut traduire approximativement par « seigneur des eaux ».
Non loin de son embouchure, la Chao Praya traverse Bangkok, où avaient lieu de fameux marchés flottants que l'on ne trouve plus guère qu'en dehors de la ville comme à Damnoen Saduak (80 km de Bangkok).
Merci Mr. Wikipedia.. :-)
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Photographed 09 September 2017, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Photographed 10 February 2023, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Photographed 28 February 2017, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Photographed 30 May 2018, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Eastern Cattle-Egret came about as a species when what was formerly called simply Cattle Egret (which had the scientific name Bubulcus ibis) was split along geographic lines into this species and Western Cattle-Egret (A. Ibis). [See here for a couple of images of that species www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/50653843567/in... and www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/50886060492/in... ]
This Eastern Cattle-Egret was seen at the famous bird-rich wetlands of the Bueng Boraphet Non-hunting Area in Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand.
Photographed 10 February 2023, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Photographed 10 February 2023, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Photographed 25 February 2019, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
The Hayat Bakhsh Bagh is the "Life-Bestowing Garden" in the northeast part of the Red Fort complex. It features a reservoir, which is now dry, and channels through which the Nahr-i-Bihisht flows. At each end is a white marble pavilion, called the Sawan and Bhadon Pavilions, named after the Hindu months, Sawan and Bhadon.
Asian Openbill is a member of the Storks family (Ciconiidae), named for the usually obvious gap between the mandibles. This gap may have evolved for manipulating snails, which are the main food source. The range of the species is primarily the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Our boat trip in the wetlands of the Bueng Boraphet Non-hunting Area in Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand, took us close to a large breeding colony. This image shows a few of the many nests. (Cormorants also frequent the spot.)
Little Cormorant is indeed small, being only about 50 cm in length, and it has a short bill, thus distinguishing it from the similar but larger and longer-billed Indian Cormorant (Phalacrocorax fuscicollis) which is also found widely in Thailand. [Great Cormorant (P. carbo) is also present, but is larger still.] This image shows a bird in the wings-spread posture often adopted to dry the wings after diving for fish, the preferred food source. This individual was seen in the wetlands of the Bueng Boraphet Non-hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand, which we visited on a boat tour.
Photographed 10 February 2023, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
The 8th annual Sawan Mela took place at Lumberman’s Arch in Vancouver Stanley Park on June 12-13, 2010. It’s a free-for-all outdoor family-oriented event organized by the South Asian Family Association (SAFA) that celebrates the South Asian culture and to promote harmony and understanding among different segments of the Canadian society. [Photo by Ray Van Eng]
VIDEO—Anita Lerche in Vancouver Downtown Bangra on May 07. 2010. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt1TRz6sAmk
Photographed 31 October 2018, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Photographed 31 October 2018, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Oriental Darter has a conservation status of Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List www.iucnredlist.org/search?query=oriental%20darter&se...
This image of an Oriental Darter in flight shows the webbed feet that propel it in its underwater pursuit of fish. The Darter part of the common name suggests the rapidity with which it strikes the prey, impaling it on that long, pointed bill. The extensive range of this species extends from the Indian Subcontinent to Indonesia, but its numbers have been affected by factors including pollution, habitat loss, and disturbance. This bird was seen during a boat trip at the Bueng Boraphet Non-hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan province, Thailand
Photographed 21 February 2018, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Photographed 09 September 2017, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Photographed 21 February 2018, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Photographed 31 October 2018, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
Heaven Valley (Hup Pha Sawan) is a cultural attraction located in Pak Tho District, Ratchaburi. Located in the middle of the mountain in the midst of nature. There will be architecture on the hill that combines the beliefs and faith of Buddhism, Christianity and Hinduism together. It is one of the places to visit in Unseen Thailand, not too far from Bangkok and would like you to try to visit once. Heavenly Valley has beautiful architecture on the top of the mountain that is related to religion is very beautiful.
Photographed 28 February 2017, Bueng Boraphet Non-Hunting Area, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand
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