Swati Thiyagarajan
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Our Inhumane Practices For Elephants Cause Deaths Like This
If longer term solutions that fit with elephant ecology and local people needs are not worked out, this conflict is only going to get worse.
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Congratulations To Us, We're More Destructive Than An Asteroid
We are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction. Species are dying out faster than ever before.
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The Trauma Of A Leopard At A Bengaluru School
What is it about us as a people that when we know a wild animal is on the prowl in our streets or our buildings we actually gather to gawk?
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From 100 Beached Whales In Tuticorin, These Messages
Maybe they are trying to bring us a message - simple truths about the importance of love, bonds with family and friends, the need for a cleaner planet and the ultimate truth that death comes to all the living and that some things are a mystery.
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Gandhiji's Request To My Grandmother, MS Subbulakshmi
My best memory of her is of her practicing her singing during long summer afternoons at home. Not a day went by when she did not practice. She would gently tune the tanpura, her graceful fingers running over the strings. She had the most beautiful hands, and the way she would move them or bring them together while singing was a wonderful sight in i...
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You Can Call Me Pseudo-Sickular
So I am a beef-eating Hindu Brahmin, married to a South African of no religious affiliation.
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My Love Letter to a Tree
How to ever feel lonely, if one has a tree to hug, asks Swati Thiagarajan.
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Let's Go Beyond Cecil and Ustad
Walter Palmer, the dentist who killed Cecil is reviled, but the Kentucky Department of the US Fish and Wildlife Service a while ago shot a cougar in Kentucky. It was the first one seen in over a hundred years there.
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On World Tiger Day, Think About This, India
The animals pay a steep price by being forced into confrontational situations and being killed and hounded for it.
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How a Croc Likely Showed up on a Goa Beach
Sometimes, let's appreciate the fact that we do share the beach with other fellow beings.
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When The Child You're Meant To Have Is Already Out There
I never played with dolls. I played house, had little toy vessels and a stove and so on, but no dolls. I liked mixing and making things in that dollhouse's kitchen but never wanted to feed those meals to a doll, a pretend baby.
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The Magnificent Elephant
They celebrate birth, mourn death, live life to the fullest, writes Swati Thiyagarajan
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Our Inhumane Practices For Elephants Cause Deaths Like This
If longer term solutions that fit with elephant ecology and local people needs are not worked out, this conflict is only going to get worse.
-
Congratulations To Us, We're More Destructive Than An Asteroid
We are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction. Species are dying out faster than ever before.
-
The Trauma Of A Leopard At A Bengaluru School
What is it about us as a people that when we know a wild animal is on the prowl in our streets or our buildings we actually gather to gawk?
-
From 100 Beached Whales In Tuticorin, These Messages
Maybe they are trying to bring us a message - simple truths about the importance of love, bonds with family and friends, the need for a cleaner planet and the ultimate truth that death comes to all the living and that some things are a mystery.
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Gandhiji's Request To My Grandmother, MS Subbulakshmi
My best memory of her is of her practicing her singing during long summer afternoons at home. Not a day went by when she did not practice. She would gently tune the tanpura, her graceful fingers running over the strings. She had the most beautiful hands, and the way she would move them or bring them together while singing was a wonderful sight in i...
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You Can Call Me Pseudo-Sickular
So I am a beef-eating Hindu Brahmin, married to a South African of no religious affiliation.
-
My Love Letter to a Tree
How to ever feel lonely, if one has a tree to hug, asks Swati Thiagarajan.
-
Let's Go Beyond Cecil and Ustad
Walter Palmer, the dentist who killed Cecil is reviled, but the Kentucky Department of the US Fish and Wildlife Service a while ago shot a cougar in Kentucky. It was the first one seen in over a hundred years there.
-
On World Tiger Day, Think About This, India
The animals pay a steep price by being forced into confrontational situations and being killed and hounded for it.
-
How a Croc Likely Showed up on a Goa Beach
Sometimes, let's appreciate the fact that we do share the beach with other fellow beings.
-
When The Child You're Meant To Have Is Already Out There
I never played with dolls. I played house, had little toy vessels and a stove and so on, but no dolls. I liked mixing and making things in that dollhouse's kitchen but never wanted to feed those meals to a doll, a pretend baby.
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The Magnificent Elephant
They celebrate birth, mourn death, live life to the fullest, writes Swati Thiyagarajan
