Posts from the environment category.
There is a strange privilege in modern civilisation.We can depend on something without ever seeing it.Turn on a tap and water appears.Open an app and information appears.Order food and a complex supply chain disappears behind a delivery notification.Walk into an office and we rarely think about the infrastructure that makes the building functional.The more sophisticated a system becomes, the easie...
What happens when a place stops producing gold but refuses to stop carrying its history?That question stayed with me while reading Rabi Samuel’s Cold Mine.Set against the history of Kolar Gold Fields, the novel takes us into abandoned mine shafts, forgotten records, unfinished maps and old legends. But beneath the thriller machinery, Samuel is interested in something larger: what happens to people...
Some books ask how society functions. Others ask why human beings exist. Very few attempt to answer both questions simultaneously.That ambition sits at the heart of The Second Breath: The Measure of Becoming in Science, Spirit and Human Condition by Dr. Rabindra Nath Sahoo.At first glance, the book appears to be about population dynamics, a subject most readers associate with census tables, demogr...
Last week, I recalled this scene from my childhood from the good old 90s.My friends and I used to play in a huge pile of fresh sand, meant for construction near my house. We got shovel lookalikes and built ‘‘sand houses’’ there. I don't think we had any idea of “sand castles” then, so we made houses. Also dens and tunnels. Evenings were busy playing in this sand patch. Nobody objected, nobody dist...
Some thrillers entertain you for a weekend.Some leave you glancing at the weather app a little differently afterward.While reading The Pralaya Prophecy by Mridula Ramesh, I kept feeling an unusual mix of dread and tenderness — as if ancient mythology and tomorrow’s newspaper headlines had been locked inside the same room and told to survive together.And somewhere in the middle of that storm stands...
Hills of Panhala and Jotiba. By Sunday appointment only. Mon thru Sat no available viewing due to human ruined air.Sorry for inconvenience caused. All sales final. No refunds.
Pune Weather: Where Sunshine Meets Sudden ShowersNestled in the Sahyadri hills, Pune is known for its pleasant climate, making it one of India’s most livable cities. But if you’ve spent even a week here, you’ll know — Pune’s weather has a personality of its own.Summer in Pune (March to May)Unlike many Indian cities, Pune’s summers are relatively moderate. Temperatures typically range between 30°C ...
Some stories don’t ask you to judge what happened. They ask you to sit quietly with why it happened — and then leave you alone with the discomfort of not having a clean answer.That was the space I found myself in while reading We, the Survivors.You enter the narrative knowing the outcome. A man has killed someone. He has already served his time. The world has moved on. And yet, the most important ...
My hometown is a mercurial entity. Too much summer heat elicits a reflexive response. Cooling showers bring some welcome relief. Reset the clock.
