Category: Nature-Adventure
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जिंदगी से खिलवाड़
यदि हम पर्यावरण का ध्यान नहीं देंगे तो मौत का दावत दे रहे हैं
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GOA – GOING, GOING, GONE?
Going, going, gone – is what an auctioneer says before bringing down the mallet to seal a bid. Outside the IPL auctions, this action is rarely seen today. However, I am familiar with this process because my family was in this business from 1858 to 1988. My Uncle Stan, who was blessed with the gift…
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ORCHHA – SYMBOL OF COMMUNAL HARMONY
Chances are that a lot of travellers, even in India, have not heard of Orchha. It is about 25 kms from Jhansi, but in the neighbouring State of M.P. Its heyday, as the capital of the Bundela kingdom, was co-terminus with the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar in Agra, about 200 kms due north….
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BROTHER NEEM
# chhotebhai Brother Neem You must be a hundred years old Standing sentinel before our ancestral home. My earliest memory of you As a little child Was of fear. You were so big and dense So the servants kept us Children at bay. Snakes could be lurking there. Still I remember The joy of discovery…
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ROLLER COASTER
A roller coaster ride can throw one upside down or side to side. Not meant for the faint hearted. After my daughter was born 38 years ago, this was probably the first time that I was travelling out of my hometown Kanpur for more than 10 days. It was a roller coaster ride through 3…
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COASTAL COLLATERAL
(A sequel to “Roller Coaster”) In war, and even out of it, those who resort to aerial bombardment use the term “collateral damage” to explain away the loss of innocent lives, or destruction of non-military targets; as is now happening in Gaza. It is a convenient justification, or escape route, for what should be classified…
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TILLY WASN’T SILLY
By the time you get to read this article the tidal waves of sympathy and tchk-tchking over the tsunami disaster will have subsided; and life, for the vast majority of us, would have returned to “normal”. Therein lies the real and hidden danger, which this piece seeks to expose. There are many things beyond our…
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THE GRAIPE OF GOA
What a word! My word, it isn’t. Ask our very own wordsmith – Shashi Tharoor. So why did I choose such an obnoxious sounding word? It is actually a combination of three words – Grape, Gripe and Rape; with which I have taken poetic licence to write some prose! The first word, Grape, came to…