Mona Abul Nasr, Al-Hala Al-Sardiya lil Warda Al-Mashourah (The Narrative Condition of the Magic Flower), Cairo: Dar Al-Shorouk, 2025. pp135. The prominent book critic Mona Abul Nasr’s first work of ...

Four years and two floods later, I had the good fortune of again enjoying the rare phenomenon of migration of butterflies in Kerala’s Wayanad in the fag end of this September. Swarms of butterflies of ...

Feeling hungry? Plenty of flowers attract hummingbirds and other pollinators to your garden, but not many smell as good as an actual dessert.

A little bit of nature, a little bit of whimsy.

Butterflies are one of the most beautiful creations found in nature. Known as “flowers with wings”, almost all other creatures are attracted to these colourful beings. “There are about 17,000 species ...