Ah, the Asian koel. Even if you don’t know this cuckoo bird by name, you’d probably know it by its distinctively aggravating call: that loud 'ku-oo' sound waking you up early in the morning. A woman ...

It’s that time of year when we wake up to the familiar ko-oooo, koo-oooo call of the male Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus), in the neighbour’s mango tree. This is the mating season for the bird and ...

It is a pleasant coincidence though that the koel should have had linkages in the Indian culture both with poetry and poets. For, I believe that the great poet Kalidasa had noticed that koels sang ...

The South West Monsoon has set in and the nippy mornings are punctuated by the mellifluous call of the cuckoo. The bird has been the muse of great poets and writers and cuckoo songs are associated ...