to boldly go where no man has gone before...

Yes folks ! these days Little Anya is more like the Starship Enterprise, with a single point mission ' to seek up new life, new civilisations and to boldly go where no man has gone before...' With her increasing prowess in crawling and an improving sense of balance she often manages to throw her parents off balance.

Take the TV cabinet for instance, needed all sorts of fortification around to protect the contents from little Anya's explorations (rather exacavations). Fortunately, the 'authorities' moved quickly and managed a TV cabinet so that the DVD player and all the connecting wires can breathe freely. It is actually quite an irony though that the lock to this cabinet has some defects and does not operate, so until it is replaced, the contents of that cabinet count on their nine lives, out of which they have already exhausted eight and a half !

It is almost like an excavation of an Egyptian tomb , the drawers are a silent witness to the act of emptying of their 'relics' on to the floor.

However, with all these new found degrees of freedom, Little Anya is quite gentle with her surroundings. So far hardly any book tearing incidents have been reported. The newspapers are another story though. These days they are found around the dumping area in the balcony to escape being mauled badly.

There however are other objects such as the diaper bags, that serve as a rugged playmate for Little Anya. Those bags dont mind being sat upon, have a good cushion, being 'driven' and are not that easy to maul for Little Anya.

These days Little Anya can voice her opinions through grunts and a variety of sounds. Especially when her Daddy returns from work, he is not allowed anywhere without Little Anya being happily ensconced in his arms. The approach is so fast that Daddy has some difficulty in managing to take off the shoes and put the winter jacket on a hanger. He has learnt his lessons and he attends to less important things such as answering the calls of nature etc already at work before starting for home !

We also have a special feature this time, with some snaps from one of the 'drawer episodes'. Emptying the contents of the drawers was something that the parents had learnt to come to terms with , but Little Anya did manage to take her parents by complete surprise when she managed to enter into one of the drawers and become one of the contents herself !!

She appeared quite proud of her achievement and decided to stay there for quite some time. Needless to say, the parents decided to reach for the camera instead of trying to take her out of there ! ( The thing of beauty is after all joy forever ! )

Finally folks we are leaving you with some previously unreleased footage of the Maneaters from Kumaon episode. Our correspondent from the frontline has sent us some more photos that describe the aftermath of the first video clipping in that episode.

The usual mauling that the village folk have been witnessing for sometime..


The Maneater trying to drag the 'big kill' to its den..