In Rajasthan, Raj discovers a Bishnoi ethos that informs a spiritual tree-hugging practice which pre-dates the modern climate change movement.
A post-covid trip to Rajasthan
Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd inspired my wife (Mangla) and my first trip back to India since Covid shut down the world. We wanted to be in
Towards the end of last year a group of far-right German political leaders gathered in a country hotel on the outskirts of Potsdam
Towards the end of last year a group of far-right German political leaders gathered in a country hotel on the outskirts of Potsdam.
They included key members of Germany’s Alternative fur Deutschland
Dr. Christopher Okemwa, poet and writer from Kenya invites all poets to write two original poems on ‘Silence’
Nairobi
Dr. Christopher Okemwa, poet, writer and editor from Kenya, wrote that silence is not just the absence of something, but as someone once said, “It’s a realm of possibilities, a canvas of emotions,
Humour, as a distinctive form of creative art, is relatively a modern phenomenon, and Sindhi literature is not barren of elements of good humour
I have no big claim to make about a great tradition of humour in Sindhi literature. Perhaps it may be the case with other Indian literature as well, since humour, as a distinctive form of creative
India’s nomadic pastoralists migrate for eight months a year, covering huge distances
The animals are returning on a biblical scale, flooding into this green expanse, like grains of sand rushing into an hourglass. Water buffalo, camel caravans, herds of cows and goats swarm over the horizon towards me on these vast, stark plains
