It wasn’t until when we read ‘The portrait of a lady’ by ace writer and novelist Khushwant Singh that I started observing birds and their unique charm. The portrait of a lady about Khushwant Singh’s grandmother feeding birds, catching their emotions, symbolizing happiness and grief, moaning on her...
I’m working in Chennai and live very close to the beach. Going for a walk every morning has become a part of my daily routine. I go for a walk alone but everyone there comes with a companion. Yes (giggling), they come with their pet. Personally I’m not so fond of keeping pets but seeing them all has...
Imagine the world without any beings apart from humans, a world where there are no 4-footed creatures, where there won’t be any zoos, where diversity would lie only in different faces that we encounter and not in the different forms of living beings, where the mornings won’t hear the chirps, where the...
One of the prime reasons why people have pets is that there is something to cuddle, hug and talk to when they get back home. Above all, you know you can trust them with a lifetime of unconditional love. Unlike with other humans, with animals there is no fear of being cheated or swindled.
It is probably this...
‘Stray dogs’ has been a very touchy topic for a long time now. Mostly even I tend to ignore it just the way I ignore the random dogs on the streets, but every once in a while it does come up, like it did yesterday. I was coming back from the institute at 3 in the night and a bunch of dogs which...
