The smell of phenol floats in the morning fog At the entrance, I slip my feet...

We went to watch birdsin the backwaters of Chennai.Left-over ocean in brackish lakeswhere the water hyacinth......

Ambai—pseudonym for CS Lakshmi—an accomplished Tamil writer, and the only one to be included in the......

Birds on the Edge of a City We went to watch birds...

Long ago the platesof our planet moved apart.The Tethys sea drownedleaving behind its light stillrippling on......

If Nature Took a human shape It would be A female Shadow self...

NatureMay be contentJust being an airyLittle shadow, from aSafe distance standing,Watching the AnthropoceneUnfold— Where’s the sportIn......

It’s the tree,’ said the dryad shortly ‘What’s it doing?’ said Rincewind ‘Living.’...

true, this isn’t paradise But it’s the onlyParadise on this polluted Earth I’m aware of: Bitter......

One April evening I saw the dance of fireflies Small smoulders coruscating amidst the gnarly boughs...