The Small Voice

Dude , Where's My Home? A sparrow was scouting the space above the steel almirah in our bedroom, the one in which HER EMINENCE, the wifey keeps the exploits of her shopping expeditions locked and barred from the general public. She was of the view that the poor bird must have lost its way. But to my experienced eyes, the reasons were clear. The poor bird was a male. And since today being world Sparrows day, obviously he had been sent by his better half to do some last minute real estate scouting. Mind you folks, Gudi Padhwa is drawing near too, and so is the discomfort for struggling-to-make-ends-meet-in-this-inflationary-days-hubbies. The pressure on the husband to buy an apna house will mount by the minute. They will be cajoled and threatened; often the latter to bite the Home-Loan bullet and buy an exorbitantly overpriced, match-box size flat despite the builder’s shady dealings from wives of all shades, shapes and sizes. Sigh. I made a mental note t...

Climate is changing for the worse Climate change is there for all to see. Wherever you are placed on the globe, please jig your memory and you will realise seeing weather phenomena getting weirder every year. Climate changes are happening NOW as we speak and dither on what to do or not do. Sweaters in Mumbai, blizzard in China: indicate terrifying change happening For example, record low temperatures across globe, resulting in galloping food prieces in China and world over. In Mumbai, we had 9 degrees temperature (coldest day for the last 10 years) which is a surprise as this seaside city usually is warm or hot round the year. People wearing sweaters in Mumbai, is the weirdest that can be. Various news article and reports claim that within 10 years the global warming will be irreversible. I feel that we may not have even that long. Forget politicos: Let see what we can do As concerned and free individuals, it will be great if we all could have found a way to contribute to lessen the ir...

One of the most beautiful creations is being brutally killed. Read below to know how. And also read what we can do to help. Excerpts from the site: “Shark finning is killing sharks every year at an alarming rate! It is estimated that 100 million sharks annually are killed for their fins alone. This practice is mainly for supplying shark fins for the so-called delicacy known as shark fin soup. Sharks that are caught and their fins cut off are not always dead when their bodies are thrown back into the sea. Without its fins the shark simply sinks to the bottom of the ocean where it dies. Such a horrible death for such a magnificent creature! How aweful it must be for these animals... to think that when their body hits the water again that they will be safe, only to realize that they can no longer swim, and end up dying in an ocean, which was just moments earlier their safe haven, and is now their doom. All of this killing for a bowl of soup! What if human foot soup sudde...