Category: The Earth

Rain-Serviced Earth

By Bindu Krishnan on July 28, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

I love the rains.. it was stormy and raining when I was born, so my mother doesn’t like the rains much for she went through a near death experience while giving birth to me but for me its the sound associated with my birth and hence soothing. Over […]

Then & Now

By Bindu Krishnan on July 11, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Today morning as I opened FB, it threw up an old memory from 2011. Krishnan and I had gone for a short cycle ride towards the CRPF camp but turned left and went towards the IREO apartments that were being built. The space between the point where we […]

Heat, Dust, an early Monsoon and the Earth

By Bindu Krishnan on July 2, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

For the past five to six days, it has been raining every night. Its raining right now … What a welcome relief from the dust, because just a week back, the terrible dust storms were back. We have been in Delhi NCR for 21 years now and if […]

New Winged Visitors

By Bindu Krishnan on June 26, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

In the last two days we have had two new kinds of birds coming to drink water on our balcony. Our old sparrow couple also came back and the pigeons never left, even though they are much better behaved now. We also have the fiesty Mynas showing off […]

The Plastic Apathy

By Bindu Krishnan on June 24, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )

My dear friend Javed shared this video on our WhatsApp group and it made many of us emotional… Do watch the video and wonder about the kind of world we are creating for our children – no trees, no colorful flowers plastic filled oceans, plastic flowers, plastic plates, […]

Waved out the Microwave

By Bindu Krishnan on September 28, 2017 • ( 1 Comment )

We bought a microwave 15 years back and ever since then, it has been an important appliance in the kitchen. I initially used it just to reheat stuff, then to cook rice. Then I figured out I could steam vegetables in it and then discovered roasting papad and […]

The soul is eternal, so is plastic !!

By Bindu Krishnan on January 11, 2016 • ( 5 Comments )

Man has actually surpassed God and for those who don’t believe in “a” God, man has surpassed nature. Wow – Man is greater than God/Nature. We have managed to create something that will remain forever, undying, forever young – the wonderful substance called plastic. Plastic bags have pervaded […]