We have started from home but have not reached the destination. From the animal world, we have desperately developed in search of change. For us, it was difficult to live like animals; we evolved to become super-modern humans. We built families, created classes, and climbed higher in the food chain…
Adjust, adjust, adjust… Who kills their Girl child?
Neha’s story isn’t shrouded in roses. There is no grand beginning or thrill in her love story. It is unsettling because it unfolds where expectations destroy a woman’s self-esteem. How can love turn into turmoil?Neha was a girl with her own dreams and goals. She studied hard and became a…
A Thousand Contacts, No Real Connections: The Villain is the Third Person
A third person’s interference in any matter is usually said to spoil it. But today, without this third person, even relationships do not seem to work. That third person is the mobile phone. Even when people are sitting in the same room, they are often chatting with each other through…
The Forgotten Bond: Humans, Instinct, and the Natural World
Today I was watching a spider making its web, and it was so beautiful. Within no time, its house was ready. It is not just a house, it is everything for the spider. Its mate comes, they reproduce there, they hunt their food there. Without the intention to destroy it,…
Elephants in Temples: Between Devotion and Dilemma
I have seen in Kerala that in old temples an elephant is considered necessary for completing the rituals. Without one, the festivity feels incomplete for Keralites. The minimum is one, and the number can go up depending on the financial condition of the devotees. When this system was first implemented,…
His Highness Humans: Our Hidden Agenda with Tribes
Today I was travelling with a tribal boy in Wayanad. While talking to him, I tried to understand his lifestyle, food, culture, basically to know them better.The boy has completed his higher secondary studies, he is now above eighteen, and he lost his parents long back. At present, he is…