Alone

why is it that it i am not lonely when alone, but am alone in a crowd?

some more advice (ha ha) for the dog

A closed door does not mean that we-are-doing-something-very exciting-there or that you arent part of the family or most importantly, it does not mean the AC is on, and we are keeping out of it.
it's just a door that happens to be closed.


I know i am going out, i know that it makes you very sad. However, lets take things into perspective:

Do NOT stand by the window peering out with orphan eyes. I won't change my mind, and no, you can't go to the board meeting either.

I am NOT breaking up the family.

I am NOT going forever. I will be back shortly.

And yes, you succeed superbly in making me feel guilty.

dogs

people who imagine dogs as monsters out to get them are missing out in life, their loss

Water...

People worry about their children, plan for their future..
from the day they are born..
save for their education, save for their marriage
invest in property..
not a one worries that there will not be water for them to drink.or bathe in or cook vegetables, or wash their hands off, or cool off in a hot, hot summer's day.
Simply imagine a world without water..and imagine your child being part of it. if that world survives.

the tiger...

Saving tigers is not a luxury, no, not even for a populated country like India. We need to understand that the loss of a tiger is not just the loss of a tiger. It is the unfurling of yet another strand of the eco-system on which we depend, on which a large majority of our billions depend. It is about water, the basis of our life…no less than 600 rivers and streams flow out of the tiger’s forests in India. The ancients understood it—in many cultures tiger is revered as the Water God.
It is not about us saving the tiger, it is about the tiger saving us..

pesticides in my garden

The spray pesticides in our society garden, the fall guy who sprays it is masked --looking not unlike an alien-but what about us--and the children-- who then romp around in the garden? what about the birds & butterflies? One of the trees has a nest. I saw tiny babies --one beak peeking out--i wonder if it will survive this assault? Lets stop this. What about the plants? they are supposed to make our life healthy,the cleaner. But we go ahead and lace it with poison..as tho there isn't enough of it in the air.

Second Green Revolution. Help!

The PM, Dr Manmohan singh has said that the GM crops can help usher in the second Green revolution. Does the PM know the impacts of the first one. he should find out from the state he belongs to. Intensive use of fertilisers have degraded farmlands, soil fertility has suffered, yield has crashed-of rice and wheat and other crops--which has contributed to the whopping 19 per cent inflation in food prices. The country now produces less rice per hectare than its far poorer neighbors: Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Also, let’s not forget farmer suicides in Punjab..This is not me, environmentalist saying this, but The Wall Street Journal