Navin Kabra's Blog

Amazon girl with baby alligator
Originally uploaded by ngkabra.

Just remembered this neat photograph of a girl holding a baby alligator in the Amazon river. This was apparently a livelyhood for her – she poses for tourists with the baby alligator and then charges them money for taking photographs.

An anonymous commenter points out that this is really a Caiman and not an alligator. True; “Real” alligators exist only in North America and China. But based on the Wikipedia entry on this subject, it appears to me that it is OK to refer to them as “alligators” for normal (non-scientific) usage. So I am going to leave the title unchanged.

Badri Baldawa family photograph
Originally uploaded by ngkabra.

This is a photograph of Badri Baldawa’s family. Note that when the real family photograph was taken, Seema was not married, and Arsh and Ruhi were not born. So Nilesh, Arsh, and Ruhi have been transplanted from other photos into this photo through the miracle of photoshopping.

Playing in the Lego box
Originally uploaded by ngkabra.

We’ve had this box of Legos for a few years now, and the most fun the kids get out of this is the box itself. First Arsh, and now Ruhi, take immense pleasure in emptying out all the lego pieces from the box and then sitting inside the box. They can amuse themselves like this for quite a while.