Nature

Smokies

The Invisible Infrastructure We Depend On

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...

Why Immensa Book Club ?

I pick up my phone to check the time, but put it down say 22 minutes later. I had laughed twice, maybe, learnt nothing (usually), and still did not know what the time is.If you are reading this and smiling, then you have done it too.We keep saying the kids these days can't focus. Have you looked at us? The kids at least are honest about it. We adults have a list of genuine excuses to justify it, o...

Morning glory

Celebrating India - Trek to HarKiDun

It was 2015, just after we had passed out of our MBA college, when we three friends decided we needed a different kind of break. No fancy resort, no new city to “check off” a list—just us, our backpacks, and the mountains. That’s how Har Ki Dun happened.We didn’t know then that this trek would stay with us long after our sore muscles had healed.Stepping Out of ComfortOur biggest concern before the...

Why Our Instincts Betray Us in the Modern World

Have you ever wondered why so many of our natural tendencies feel... wrong for us?We crave more sugar than we need.We binge-watch shows instead of moving our bodies.We scroll endlessly but struggle to sit and read a book.At first glance, it seems like human instincts are broken. Other animals follow their instincts, live in sync with nature, and evolve. We, on the other hand, seem to be working ag...

The Covenant of Water

Often, when you read fiction, you’re eager to finish the book. You want to see how everything comes together and what the climax will be. But once in a while, you come across a novel you don’t want to end. You get completely engrossed in the world the author has created. You become invested in the lives of the characters and wish you could keep reading about them.The Covenant of Water by Abraham V...

The “Guy” who changed my world!

Awwww.... Hey cutie...finally you found a way to reach me!!! I am so happy... Made my day!!You know I have missed you so much...as our love story started nearly 2 decades ago!! And you have still been the same... It was a rainy day, I had just begun my B.Sc 1st year in GSS college Belgaum, was staying in hostel in the campus itself. The college had just started around July, Monsoon was about to c...

Rainy night

Reposting something I wrote 18 years ago. Funny how one can see more when they know less. It's raining.The streets are empty, except for the occasional cow running for shelter and a car going by, honking continuously in spite of an empty road. Another car pulls in the driveway of a nearby building. While it is backing up,the red taillight and the blinking yellow side indicator are giving momentary...

Sameer Gudhate on Forever Maya: The Tigress I Never Saw… Yet Will Never Forget

There are some lives you don’t witness… yet they find a way to stay with you.I never saw Maya in real life. No safari sighting, no fleeting glimpse through the lens, no moment where the forest held its breath and revealed her. And yet, somewhere between these pages of Forever Maya by Anant Sonawane, that absence quietly stopped mattering. Because this isn’t a book that lets you remain outside the ...