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I wish I were that rabbit. Those little arms holding the rabbit, look like the safest place in the world to be. A girl – four, maybe five – is holding the rabbit with a sacred kindness. The kid doesn’t need to be taught that the heartbeats of the small creature she cradles, are precious. She just knows it. I just described what I felt when I first came across…
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When I finished painting the indistinct outlines of autumn-colored trees along the distant foothills, he suggested, “Why don’t you add a small house there? It would bring the scene to life.” “Here life, would be represented by him,” I replied, pointing to the tiny, solitary, orange-tinged grasshopper perched on a fragile twig among the harvest stalks on the right side of my painting. “As summer slips away, even the birds…
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These days I find myself watching TV shows and movies from the 1970s and 1980s. It’s not for personal nostalgia; rather, I enjoy the sense of calm they evoke. They offer a glimpse into a much simpler world—some of which I haven’t even experienced in my lifetime, a world that reflects a more innocent, and perhaps more sincere relationship between people and their surroundings. The world from not so long…
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On June 11th, 2022 some rare turquoise blue wings fluttered in the sky over the mysterious, least-known biome of Cattinga, Brazil, the home where these wild and wonderous wings belong, but were not seen for over 20 years. That day, after being declared extinct-in-wild by IUCN, one of the rarest species on the planet, eight odd Spix’s Macaws had returned to their home in Brazil. The bird’s last known sighting…
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Every day, I see a living – running, jumping, playing, eating – fur ball made with the mystery of stardust, in my backyard. Every time I see it, it makes me stop in my tracks and elicits this yet-to-be-answered question from me – “What/Who even are you?” According to what education has taught, it is an “Eastern Grey Squirrel”. But then, it’s just a label, given by us – who…
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A forest – is my answer when someone asks, where I like to be the most. Fortunately, it was so from a very young age. When at around age ten, I hiked through a mountain forest in my hometown in India and reached an unforgettable spot – where, most probably for the first time in my life, I saw flowers that only grow in the wild heights, whose gentle dance…
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The last few days of yet another year are fleeting by, blindly running on a hamster wheel towards an elusive end, never truly awake to the moment we are living in, ultimately therefore, sleepwalking through rare wonders of this sacred life, begging to be lived with every fiber of our beings, keeping wide open – our eyes, our hearts. At the year’s end, as I gave final touches to the…
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When you live near a big aquarium, all your visiting relatives have it on the top of their to-do list. As a result, being a good host sometimes also means you have to visit and watch some incredible but helpless marine animals in captivity, including Dolphins, perform in shows – for a piece of food, trained by man, for the entertainment of man. While being absolutely amazed at these super…
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It may be the stunning appearance of the monarch butterflies that wins them admirers, but what makes them a species to marvel at, is their incredible ability to fly across a whole continent. When fall starts, fluttering those striking hues of orange and black in the sky, on their oh-so-dainty wings, monarchs take up a challenging journey of about 3000 miles from as far north as Canada to an overwintering…
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Tucked away in the heights of the eastern Himalayas, there is a small Buddhist country. As far as one can see – there are lush valleys with magnificent rivers, pure air with the scent of pines, thriving biodiversity (a global hotspot, one of the few remaining today), and a landscape made of 72% of forests (far exceeding the country’s constitutional requirement of minimum 60% land under forest cover), this country…
A collection of wholehearted nature poems and delightful illustrations celebrating the sublime nature in America with utter awe and joy!
