Gifting Made Easy: Via Your Zodiac: Part I
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. ~William Wordsworth, 1806 Most people would agree that there can be no gift greater than a hug. However, making...
View ArticleUttarakhand Floods: Nature’s Fury or Have We Dug Our Own Graves? – Part I
Uttarakhand Floods is probably the most debatable topic currently. Environmentalists believe that this is a man-made disaster. Chandan Das explores the topic in a similar strain. He believes that human...
View ArticleUttarakhand Floods: Nature’s Fury or Have We Dug Our Own Graves? – Part III
In the third part of the Uttarakhand Flood series, Chandan Das discusses how hydel projects have been undertaken without assessing the environmental impact. The world is too much with us; late and...
View ArticleUttarakhand Floods: Nature’s Fury or Have We Dug Our Own Graves? – Part IV
Chandan Das wonders about the reason due to which we were not able to take requisite action despite Nature giving us timely warnings, in the fourth part of the Uttarakhand Floods series. “For I have...
View ArticleUttarakhand Floods: Nature’s Fury or Have We Dug Our Own Graves? – Part V
In the fifth part of the series, Chandan Das explores the farce behind the flood control measures, which eventually led to this large scale disaster! That though the radiance which was once so bright...
View ArticleUttarakhand Floods: Nature’s Fury or Have We Dug Our Own Graves? – Part VI
Chandan Das delves into the fact that in an agricultural economy where early monsoons should come as a pleasant surprise, catches us unprepared — despite all the warnings! Ah, what a warning for a...
View ArticleUttarakhand Floods: Nature’s Fury or Have We Dug Our Own Graves? – Part VII
Chandan Das connects the dots between the negative impact of human intervention in the Himalayan ecosystem and the wrath of Nature as we have seen in the form of Uttarakhand Floods! Of all that is most...
View ArticleUttarakhand Floods: Nature’s Fury or Have We Dug Our Own Graves? – Part VIII
In the penultimate part of the Uttarkhand Floods series, Chandan Das wonders about why India can’t foresee a terror strike or a natural disaster! Why do Indians act only after lives are lost, and even...
View ArticleUttarakhand Floods: Nature’s Fury or Have We Dug Our Own Graves? – Part IX
In the last part of the series, Chandan Das elaborates on the reason why he feels that human beings have dug their own graves. He also highlights the hypocrisies that we indulge in the name of the...
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