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Just an Old Sea Dog and Other Poems mariner Beetashok Chatterjee, offers 52 lyrical poems steeped in the salt and spirit of the sea. With the beat of waves and the lilt of verse, these ballad chart a course through longing, adventure, hardship, disaster—and moments of pure joy.
Just an Old Sea Dog and Other Poems mariner Beetashok Chatterjee, offers 52 lyrical poems steeped in the salt and spirit of the sea. With the beat of waves and the lilt of verse, these ballad chart a course through longing, adventure, hardship, disaster—and moments of pure joy.
SOS was the winner of the GLF Short Story Competition for students aged 12 to 16, held in November. The winning story was chosen by celebrated author and conservationist Ishan Shanavas. Set in a dystopian future, SOS is narrated by a member of an evolved, novel species of technology-dependent humans. The story explores the gravity of the present when knowledge fails to translate into action.
Sangam Literature beautifully categorises the landscapes of Tamil land into five tinais or ecological zones. In this essay, researcher and writer Sindu Deivanayagan depicts the web of life in neithal tinai, coastal landscapes and how it can inform today’s coastal development. Image credit – Wikimedia Commonshttps://thewire.in/culture/how-sangam-literature-imagined-a-coastal-world-of-balance
Splendid Poison Frog Was it a cold December Wednesdaywhen you left?A frosty, flinty, pin-point momentthat seals most pull-outs.Silent like a hushed Mayday signalreverberating in the ripples of a pond.What time exactlydid you hop overto where nowhere exists?Did the sun flickerat your vanishing act?The way yellow convulses on a colour palettewhen mixed with greenbefore turning blue.Was it the hour of dusk,your…
Mukul Sharma is a professor of environmental studies at Ashoka University in Sonepat, Haryana. His book Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice (2024), which is a sequel to his work Caste and Nature: Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics (2017), is shortlisted for the Green Honour Book Awards in the Fiction/Non-fiction category. Published by Cambridge University Press, it draws attention to the erasure of caste from the mainstream environmental justice discourse in India and champions Dalit perspectives to challenge “eco-casteism”. In this interview, he discusses his academic research as well as his pedagogic practice in detail.
With natural disasters now an almost daily reality, Change Climate is a visceral and urgent call to arms for the last generation that can wage a war to save our planet. In a world where cities are on the verge of drowning and oceans are poisoned with plastics, this book confronts the gravity of our environmental time bomb with an…
The uniqueness of India and its Indianness lies in its natural diversity. The ancient sages and saints made efforts to bind man with nature. Since ancient times, poets have composed verses in Telugu language with nature as the focal point. In Telugu literature, animals like snakes, spiders and elephants were shown crossing the boundaries of devotion. The epic Kalahastishwara Mahatmyam Kavya, written by Dhurjati, the court poet of Sri Krishna Devaraya, is an example. Humans learnt the form of Satvik Bhakti from Shri (Spider), Kaala (snake) and Hasti (elephant), which are not domestic creatures.
The uniqueness of India and its Indianness lies in its natural diversity. The ancient sages and saints made efforts to bind man with nature. Since ancient times, poets have composed verses in Telugu language with nature as the focal point. In Telugu literature, animals like snakes, spiders and elephants were shown crossing the boundaries of devotion. The epic Kalahastishwara Mahatmyam Kavya, written by Dhurjati, the court poet of Sri Krishna Devaraya, is an example. Humans learnt the form of Satvik Bhakti from Shri (Spider), Kaala (snake) and Hasti (elephant), which are not domestic creatures.
The uniqueness of India and its Indianness lies in its natural diversity. The ancient sages and saints made efforts to bind man with nature. Since ancient times, poets have composed verses in Telugu language with nature as the focal point. In Telugu literature, animals like snakes, spiders and elephants were shown crossing the boundaries of devotion. The epic Kalahastishwara Mahatmyam Kavya, written by Dhurjati, the court poet of Sri Krishna Devaraya, is an example. Humans learnt the form of Satvik Bhakti from Shri (Spider), Kaala (snake) and Hasti (elephant), which are not domestic creatures.