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…
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…
Trump, Putin, and the Illusion of American Power
Vladimir Putin has shown that he is a great leader in the world, wisely and silently. And he continues to project that he will remain so. He has established himself as the unquestionable leader on the global stage. His supremacy over Donald Trump was visible, almost as if he had…