Think Tank

I remember my first poem which was published in our school magazine. I had got a request for a poem and when I looked around for some inspiration, I thought about my neighbor’s dog. They had picked a cute puppy from the roadside and made it their pet. The pup became a hit in the [...]

One of my ex-roommates told me a story about his leg injury:  
One fine morning he was walking by the side of the road. Suddenly trouble arrived on wheels and on four legs. When he turned back, he watched in horror a motorbike zooming past him with a pack of dogs chasing it at full speed. [...]

(They also feel pain) In the absence of George Orwell… These days I am walking through a lane which passes through a particular intersection. It’s a special one because everyday it makes me realise that we humans are not the only living species on this earth. On one side of the road, there are at least four [...]

The difference between USA and India  “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives [...]

Saw a wonderful website www.mothercow.org and thought to do something creative :)

IndiaKeralaThey also Feel Pain We all must have heard of and accepted the term “God’s Own Country” for the state of Kerala. And I always wondered why would some people call their country as “God’s own” and hence would imply that all other countries are not God’s own? Here is the short background:  The term “God’s Own [...]

MumbaiThey also Feel PainSave one… I stopped as I saw a curious crowd in a section of the road which is normally empty. They were all looking towards something high up. Suddenly, a fire brigade came in rushing. Four or five of the firemen got down and started preparing for some operation…  By this time, I [...]

MumbaiThey also Feel Pain Few Good Mayors I am not sure if I am a man of action or not, but sometimes I really get annoyed when people praise someone for ‘saying’ something. What matters in this world is ‘doing’ something good, not saying something.  Just the other day, I wrote somewhere that I am still to [...]

Middlemen dealing in animals bring old cattle to Mumbai from interior villages in Maharastra to sell those to the slaughter houses. The cows and bulls are made to travel for several nights in covered trucks, and they suffer a trauma. When they are handed over to the new owners, who keep them for some days [...]

Missing Dogs from the StreetsA story of how sometimes our neglect can result in some real loss.  Recently there were extensive public debates about whether the BMC should kill the stray dogs or not. There are around 6 lakhs stray dogs in Mumbai, growing at around 2 lakhs every year. There are cases of around [...]

Essay on CowSome times our slight neglect results in sealing the fate of a living being. During my childhood days in school, we were frequently asked to write essays on “cow”. We always began with the sentence “cow is a domestic animal”. We were asked to write sometimes 10 sentences and some times 15. How [...]