Tuesday 23 November 2021

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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Thursday 18 November 2021

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   
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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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Monday 15 November 2021

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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