Half a rupee for the largest animal that walks the earth
Dear friends, I am a baby elephant living in a camp made by human beings to rehabilitate orphaned ones like me, train and prepare me to be of use. I…
Dear friends, I am a baby elephant living in a camp made by human beings to rehabilitate orphaned ones like me, train and prepare me to be of use. I…
Dear Sisters , Today 5 of us women have left our homes to participate and sit as Satyagrahis in the small pandal near Thiruvannathapuram Domestic terminal where the Anti Adani…
I am the Agar wood or Oud tree that has been growing for more than 5 decades in the green campus of the heritage space in the city –the Residency…
The 14 year old brother and 10 year old sister hurried with their mother across the crowded city to reach their grandmother’s shop by the road side . Most evenings…
People’s Voices against the project 1 The Chief Minister of Kerala who is now on a stint meeting the “ prominent citizens “ in each of the 11 districts through…
Since 2018, we in Kerala especially those of us living in mountainous areas or the coast are afraid when clouds darken the skies and there is possibility of rains. This…
Little Muthu was used to her mother returning late and narrating issues and causes that none of her friends mothers are even aware of. She was slowly and steadily understanding…
Dear all, Since a few months, the days have been special and strange for me - not special like a birthday or festival celebration. But special and strange because for…
Dear sisters, We write this in deep anguish and fear. We fear for our community, the land we belong to and a special way of life. We live in one…
The tough and totally strange situation that we are being pushed into because of the pandemic makes one rethink and reassess a lot of things and feelings we have been…
To the Kerala Government which assumed power on 20.05.2021 In 2018 when Kerala was struck by the worst ever flood of the century, beyond and above the tragedy and catastrophic…
We live in the most tumultuous times when exit from the world and life we have taken for granted is determined by a small being. As a woman living in…
There are some human presences in life that you are unable to trace the beginning. It is like they have been with you always- like a tree whose silent, yet…
How can one let go of a person who has lived just five and a half decades? The only reason why Sheena’s family-her mother Gracy, her sister Neena, her niece…
He was the apple of the eye for whom ever met him. It was only after we lost him that every one realised what that usage meant “apple of the…
Dear Baiju, Wonder where you are…but somewhere inside the minds of some of your friends we know that you are there walking your gentle and quick steps like the swift…
June 5th 2020 dawned clear and bright, rain-washed and hauntingly beautiful in their tribal hamlet of Sambarkodu in Attapady region of Palakkad , Kerala. Appu and his friends were all…
A FABLE FOR TODAY Five year old twin brothers Udit and Sooraj loved hearing stories, in any form and length - real life stories, fairy tales, animal and wild ones…
Lockdown tryst with Biodiversity - Episode 1 Serious and sincere, little Aadi walked the hot and burning slope of the hill opposite his suburban home with his parents – he…
Lockdown Series 5 As lock down moves to 50 days, there is a “new normal’ emerging. Human beings have the amazing and scary capacity to adapt and endure in myriad…
Little Chinchu was in the much loved space of her grandparents home in a city far away from where she and her parents lived. She had come here two months…
Another Day In Paradise: Lock down Series 4 Dear Jamlo , This is not a letter or a conversation that I never ever want to do again in my life.…
It is unbelievable that two months have passed since the dreaded word LOCK DOWN became part of our lives- 2 months of staying indoors, making oneself believe that this…
Lockdown Series 3 Little Aadi is always most happy when his father and grandmother stayed home not going to the “office”, which is where they both vanish early morning long…
There are times when a darkness sets in your mind that is associated with lack of contact with your loved ones, with sharing of ideas and dreams, a poem or…
Lockdown Musings Series 1 As the reality about Corona related Lockdown and Stay indoors deepens and intensifies, the social and political atmosphere around one acquires a rarefied feel with each…
Certain phases in one’s life remain etched in indelible colours for the simple reason that they are a combination of “the firsts”. For me my 20s were when so many…
All Nature Conservation Activities/ Struggles Will have the nature of Nature itself The coolness of trees The calmness of rivers The ability of wind To set in a motion all…
Dear Sisters, I am…I could be Subaida, Shameema, Khurshida...I could be living in any of the districts of Pulvama, Shopiyan or Bandipura…but I am the woman, one of the tens…
The little boy smiled charmingly through the evening just before the surgery.His young parents were dumb with fear about the impending operation the next day when his tiny pelvic girdle…
Ammini( Amminichechi to many) sat looking at the turbulent Athirapally falls through the meshed window of the teashop which has been the source of her livelihood for many years. A…
I can never…
Today is April 22..we, a group of children are sitting in a room after a sultry morning with rain clouds in the skies and a silence in the air. We…
Dear Sisters, As the golden light of dusk falls and the roosting cries of birds eager to settle in the branches of trees all around reaches a crescendo, ,the harsh…
Dear all, It was only a few months back (August 2018) that I wrote to you all, soaked and wet after the scary and devastating floods that wrecked havoc on…
A month after 1000s walked the roads of the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram in a SORROWFUL MARCH to express their dissent about the upcoming Waste to Energy plant near their…
The 10 year old walked bold and fast along the main roads of Thiruvananthapuram. She had no fears as her mother held her hand and she could see her father…
The sleepy, cool village of Peringamala nestled in the biodiversity rich hills of Southern Western Ghats woke upon 3rd December morning to the slogans and songs that brought together the…
On a day when the skies had opened up in Thiruvanathapuram on the eve of the beginning of the crucial month of…
Dear All, I know this letter is a bit late, but I have always been a bit late in responding, as for eons I have tried to be the epitome…
Noted river protection activist and ecologist, Dr.A.Latha who passed away in November 2017 left behind a special collection of essays and writings on a even more special subject…
Dear Asifa, I have lost count of the endless letters I have written in my mind’s note pad to you since last month. There were so many moments when thoughts…
Little Aami held tight to her mother’s hands as she rushed to get the bus that would take them to the city. From the excitement of the children of the…
The general ward of a Government Medical College is equated to hell with mosquitoes,flies, bed bugs and the real proverbial hospital stink! When I overheard while lying on the…
Dear Asifa, It is not quite right that we meet like this…a girl like you so far away in cold Jammu and Kashmir and me down in the…
I compose this letter in my mind’s scribble pad sitting in the eastern verandah of the wild refuge you adopted as your home 2 decades back. Beyond the Diwi-Diwi tree,…
The word pain literally means “ a highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury”. If so, what I experienced during the first 3 months of my treatment…
My name is Appu.I am studying in 4th Standard in a school near my hamlet Sambarkod in Attapady. I want to share with you the story of a wild elephant…
Dear Gauri, It is many days since I wrote to you. This must have been the longest month in my life- the days since I first heard about your killing.…
Dear Gowri, Hope my letters are not disturbing you... but as days pass and events that disturb and confuse multiply, how can I not write and share with you?… Please…
Dear Gauri, It is 10 days since I wrote to you...2 days ago- September 15th was the International Day of Democracy with the theme Democracy and Conflict Prevention focusing on…
Dear Gouri.. A few hours ago, above the loud and deafening sounds of the guns that fired into the air to give you a “honourable state farewell”, I heard the…
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