Inspiration from a Butterfly

'The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly', said Ponce Denis the famous 18th Century French lyric poet. How beautifully has he expressed the relationship between a butterfly and a flower! Butterflies have inspired many poets and writers over the centuries. And in recent times, butterflies continue to inspire bloggers like me. Am sharing some of the PQs- picturesque quotes- based on the pictures of butterflies taken by me.

However, not all butterflies are brightly coloured. But all butterflies love flowers. Butterflies symbolise happiness. Happiness which comes after a long struggle emanating from the caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly.

KBG-66 Contest

We had featured a butterfly, Common Jezebel, perched on a lantana flower in bright sunshine, for KBG-66 Caption Contest. 

The 66th edition of Kaun Banega Ghumakkad contest received enthusiastic response from the readers. We thank all the readers for their creativity and are happy to reproduce below all the creative captions.

No.	Name	Caption for KBG-66 Contest
1	Ajai Bhumri	ज़िंदगी के रंग तितलियों के संग
2	Amandeep Kaur	Tell me a better love story than of a Butterfly and flower!
3	Anjali Tiwari	Varn alag par roop ek hain, hum donon ke rang ek hain
4	Avinash Tiwari	Mujhe parag se matalab. Phool koi bhi ho. मुझे पराग से मतलब, फूल कोई भी हो
5	Avinash Tiwari	Matchless matching
6	Avinash Tiwari	Paraspar sahyog hi prakrati ka adhaar hai
7	Bharat Ladha	Skill of colour's ultimate arrangement.
8	Deepak Jena	Open your eyes and see the beauty.
9	Deepak Jena	It is the relationships between flower and butterflie which make nature beautiful.
10	Deepak Jena	Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
11	GR Sreenivasan	Flower and Butterfly look like made for each other
12	Jaishankar	Bloom out with flying colours
13	J Ramamoorty	Solitary reaper enhancing the beauty of the picture
14	Jyoti Dixit	The nectar of life
15	Kavya	Like a butterfly, I wish to be free!
16	LS Bhargava	फूलो के रंग तितली के संग
17	LS Bhargava	Love bird of flowers
18	Manju Khetan	“मकड़ी जैसे मत उलझो आप गम के ताने बाने मे, तितली जैसे रंग बिखेरो हस कर इस ज़माने मे।”
19	Manu Bhatnagar	Happily fluttering by!
20	Narendra Soni	Butterfly ye hai Tiger Nector khaane ko eager
21	Naresh Kumar	Sughand / khushbu
22	Neelam Sawant	Tum aageye ho to noor aa gaya hai
23	Neelam Sawant	Tum dil ki dhadkan ho
24	Nidhi Bhargava	Nectar of life
25	NR Ravi	By Jezebel, I love Lantana!
26	Peter De Padua	Flutter- by, pretty li'l butterfly.
27	Peter De Padua	Gorgeous prints?, nay, Nature's designs!
28	Pradeep Siwach	Titli udi udke chali
29	Radhika Sareen	Beauty as seen is the result of patience & struggle....
30	Radhika Sareen	Touch of flower is possible after painful transition from Caterpillar to Butterfly
31	Radhika Sareen	हम बने, तुम बने, एक दूजे के लिये......
32	Rajendra Singh	Some say Butterflies in my stomach ! I say Butterflies make my day !
33	Rakesh Sharma	The butterfly is as delicate as a ballerina. The butterfly is as strong as a an eagle. The butterfly is as colourful as confetti. The butterfly is as stunning as a rose.
34	Ramdas B Dhavare	Colours first then Honey.., Do Butterflies too discriminate?!!
35	Rashmi Bhargava	Happiness is like a butterfly
36	Rekha Bhargava	तितली फूलों का रस पीती हुम सब का  मन हर लेती
37	Ritu Bhargava	Be like a butterfly- sweet, elegant and graceful.
38	Rohini Tiwari	Effortless beauty!!
39	Ruma Purkayastha	Beauty in simplicity
40	Ruma Purkayastha	Rest but don't forget to fly
41	Ruma Purkayastha	Complete
42	Ruma Purkayastha	Delicate but strong
43	Shereen Sultana	Spreading smiles all the way.
44	Shreya Jonnada	I wonder why your vision is so blurry, I wish you could see your own wizardry.
45	Veeky Baths	तितली उड़ी उड़ जो चली फूल ने कहा, आजा मेरे पास!!
46	Vinay Prasad	Appreciate the beauty but also remember the transformations!
47	Vinod Dhanuka	Matching colours Cantilever

 Winners

Our Jury has selected four winning captions which are listed below along with the brief profiles of the readers. Our congratulations to all the Winners.

Avinash Tiwari loves golf, gardening and music. A former Colonel of Indian Army, he is a War Veteran of 1971 war. Having done enough route marches with his troops, he detests long morning walks except on the golf course. He is a regular contributor and winner of KBG contests. His  caption 'Mujhe parag se matlab, phool koi bhi ho!' मुझे पराग से मतलब, फूल कोई भी हो meaning the butterfly says 'Pollen is my aim, can be from any flower!' was the Jury's immediate choice.

Jaishankar loves Nature, hiking and writing. He has a blog with many interesting tales. A former Colonel, he loves adventure in life. A regular contributor, he has won the KBG Contest several times. His caption 'Bloom out with flying colours' caught the Jury's eye.

Manju Khetan is also a regular reader of Ghumakkad's blog. She holds a degree in Literature from Delhi University and loves solving puzzles. Her caption “मकड़ी जैसे मत उलझो आप ग़म  के ताने बाने में, तितली जैसे रंग बिखेरो हंस कर इस ज़माने में” conveys a message about life. It means do not weave a web of sorrows like the spider, rather spread joy with a smile like the butterfly.

Vinay Prasad is a keen photographer who loves to shoot in the mornings. An alumnus of BITS Pilani, Vinay is the CEO of a defence ancillary in Hyderabad. His caption 'Appreciate the beauty but also remember the transformations!' signifies the transformation of a caterpillar into the butterfly.

We also thank both the Jury members Anchita Nidhindra and Akanksha Bhargava for their time and speedy selection.

Covid seems to be playing hide and seek, diminishing in some places and re-surfacing in some other parts of the globe. Online distractions like the KBG are meant to take our minds off Corona and it's gloomy impact. Hope the KBG contests help you in warding off the Covid boredom. Thank you for your interest in KBG.

Stay connected and stay safe.

     - Harsh-the-Ghumakkad with Neeta Bhargava/ 24th Nov 2021

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Butterfly and Happiness

Butterflies always look happy. Isn't it? Or, they make us happy. Right?

Our next caption contest features a butterfly. It is the 66th edition of Kaun Banega Ghumakkad. See the picture of a butterfly the Common Jezebel for our Contest KBG-66 below.

Here is another copy without the contest banner for better visualisation of your caption.

Got a caption for the above picture? 

How to Submit a Caption

For the first-timers on KBG, you can respond using any of the six channels below:

1. Leave a comment on this post
2. Send email to hbindia@gmail.com   
3. Respond on the FB post
4. Comment on Instagram @ghumakkadhb 
5. Comment on Twitter @HarshBh21184761
6. Send a WA message. If you want your WA number to be added to Ghumakkad's list, send an email.

Now get going and give your caption pronto! If you feel like, you may suggest more than one caption.

For those interested in knowing more about butterflies, you may browse our earlier story 'Life is like a Butterfly'.

Previous Contest

KBG-65, the 65th edition of Kaun Banega Ghumakkad Caption Contest featured a picture of Mist over the hills in Munnar, Kerala. It received a record 50 captions from across the globe. You may view more pictures of misty morning and browse the winning captions in the story 'Misty Munnar'. Two of the winning captions are reproduced below:

Hope we have helped you in overcoming the Covid boredom to some extent.

Now, be your creative best and shoot your response. Most catchy captions will be the Winners of KBG-66! All the best.

Thank you all the readers for your continued support.

Stay connected, stay safe.

   - Harsh-the-Ghumakkad with Neeta Bhargava/ 18th November 2021

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Misty Munnar

"Who will wake up early in a hill station and that too on a vacation?"

"Well, if you want to feel the magic of misty mountains there is no option. You have to walk up the hills before the Sun comes out of hiding."

This story recreates the magic which we experienced in Munnar tea garden early morning in March. Those not familiar with Munnar, a hill station in Kerala India, may browse our earlier story 'Munnar The Charm of Kerala'. It also takes you around some tourist spots including a Kathakali dance performance. Glimpses for you.

We had to hike up a private road owned by the tea estate close to High Range Club, where we were staying in Munnar. With no traffic, the only sound was occasional bird calls in the valley below. As we walked through the morning mist and gained height, we felt a sense of floating in the air. Remember the poem 'Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky'? Am sharing the pictures in sequence to give you the feeling of the day break and sunshine in the tea estate. Explore the hills on foot with us and let the pictures do the talking. 

KBG-65 Contest

We had used one of the pictures of morning mist at Munnar for the KBG-65 - Kaun Banega Ghumakkad on-line captions contest No. 65. 

It generated lot of interest in the readers. We received a record 50 captions from across the globe listed below.

No.	Name	Caption for KBG-65 Contest
1	Ajai Bhumri	आसमां भी झुक रहा है जमी पर, जमी की सुंदरता देखने
2	Amandeep Kaur	The fog always lifts!
3	Avinash Tiwari	Aaj main oopar aasman neeche! आज मैं ऊपर आसमाँन नीचे
4	Bharat Ladha	ज्यों ही धुंध छटेगा, नया संसार दिखेगा ।
5	Deepak Jena	Fog can cover anything, anything except itself!
6	Deepak Jena	Gives relief from a way of seeing.
7	GB Sethi	Morning walk, You are not alone
8	GR Sreenivasan	Feels like floating in seventh Heaven.
9	Jaishankar	Rivulets of mist through a swathe of green.
10	J Ramamoorty	Once the mist lifts, the picture would be clearer
11	Jyoti Dixit	Dreams and goals go with mist
12	LS Bhargava	Opaque and visibility friendship.
13	Manju Khetan	If you can live the beauty of the misty mornings, you are the king, you are the queen!!
14	Manu Bhatnagar	When the clouds kiss the earth...
15	MN Muralidharan	Sky on earth (Dharthi pur hi aasman)
16	Narendra Soni	Mist is always mysterious.
17	Naresh Kumar	Silence of Dawn
18	Nidhi Bhargava	ये कौन चित्रकार है?
19	Parag Sharma	The contours of night and misty morning  meet and  there is a mystic feeling of vastness.
20	Peter De Padua	As white as clouds, as light as laughter, as mysterious as Munnar.
21	Peter De Padua	Munnar mist or cloudy kissed.
22	Poonam Bhargava	Let the mist of the mind too unfold into beautiful sunny thoughts
23	Pradeep Siwach	Sunehri vadiyan.
24	Prabhat Jindal	Morning Glory
25	Prabhat Jindal	Nature at its Best
26	Radhika Sareen	Mischievious mist in mystical morning
27	Radhika Sareen	No matter how powerful the mist is...cant hide the morning glory..
28	Radhika Sareen	There is always a silver line in mist too
29	Radhika Sareen	Mischievous mist hiding morning glory
30	Radhika Sareen	Haste makes mist in the mind hiding the bright thoughts…
31	Raghuraj Bhargava	Misty Morning or Mishty Morning
32	Rajendra Singh	Good morning greetings by nature decked in white. Adieu to monsoons, welcome winter cool and bright. Adieu to monsoons, welcome winter cool and bright.
33	Rajnesh Gossain	Mesmerizing Divinity
34	Rakesh Sharma	Shimmering lakes of silvery ice welcomes skaters' scarring slice. Hills adorned in lacy white watch children sleigh into the night.
35	Ramdas B Dhavare	Misty eyes of the Nature have their own Beauty!!
36	Rashmi Bhargava	Misty morning waiting for misty smile
37	Rekha Bhargava	बादल संग krirra का अह्सास है dhund। Rui में लिपटे होने का अह्सास है dhund।
38	Ritu Bhargava	Walk through mist without being lost.
39	Rohini Tiwari	Pahadon ne odha hai halke dhund ka dushala... sardi ka mazaa toh prakriti bhi leti hai!
40	Ruma Purkayastha	The  mysterious  mist
41	Ruma Purkayastha	Moist mysterious morning
42	Ruma Purkayastha	A misty moist morning
43	Shereen Sultana	Keep your thoughts as clear as the clarity after the mist.
44	Sujata Das	On a misty foggy morning, on the glass of my window, I still write your name.
45	Umesh Dhyani	भाई मिष्टी दही तो सुना, मिष्टी मौरनिग क्या है?
46	Unknown	Nature's Misty Eyes
47	Veeky Baths	The fog always lifts.
48	Vinay Prasad	Go through the mist and find the truth!
49	Vinod Dhanuka	Serenity in Silence
50	Yogesh Verma	Ek Dhund se aana hai Ek Dhund mein jaana hai

Winners

The Jury comprising of Akanksha Bhargava and Anchita Nidhindra (both in USA) has selected the following captions as Winners. Both the jury members are keen travellers, writers, Nature lovers and qualified school teachers. The winning captions along with brief profiles of the writers are given below. Our congratulations to them.

Avinash Tiwari loves golf, gardening and music. A former Col of Indian Army, he is a War Veteran of 1971 war. Having done enough route marches with his troops, he detests long morning walks except on the golf course. He is a regular contributor and winner of KBG contests. His  caption 'Aaj main oopar aasman neeche!' आज मैं ऊपर आसमाँन नीचे  meaning 'Today I am above the sky!' was the Jury's immediate choice.

Peter de Padua has won the KBG Contests previously also. A former Wing Commander of IAF, Peter is a water sport enthusiast. His short and crisp caption 'Munnar mist or cloudy kissed.' won the Jury's appreciation.

Shereen Sultana appreciates Nature and has been a past winner of several KBG Contests. With an MBA in finance she applies her creative thinking in life. Her caption 'Keep your thoughts as clear as the clarity after the mist.' was simple and appealing.

Our next winning caption 'Nature's Misty Eyes' came from an unknown contestant. Very apt, the Jury selected it. We would be happy to add the profile of the winner if revealed by the anonymous contestant.

Once again our thanks to all the contestants and congratulations to the winners.

Hope you enjoyed the morning mist in Munnar hills. If you haven't been there, do plan a visit after Covid restrictions are lifted. And those who have been there, do share a picture or two for all of us to see.

We end with a PQ- picturesque quote by Rabindra Nath Tagore who wrote that "The mountain remains unmoved at it's seeming defeat by the mist".

Thank you all the readers for your continued support to Ghumakkad.

Stay connected, stay safe.

   - Harsh-the-Ghumakkad with Neeta Bhargava/ 15th November 2021

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