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Change Through Education

Anil — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:08:54 +0000

by Ameen Ahmed and Anil Cherukupalli (Note: First published on WWF-India’s website. The following modified version appeared subsequently on WWF’s Global Intranet.) Meet the Pardis Hardly a community in India’s recent history has been more affected by changing laws and times than the Pardis. A nomadic tribe spread across the central states of Maharashtra and [...]

Rain

Anil — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:12:10 +0000

I sat by the railing as rain water dripped from the roof that was shaped like a shroud and remembered that night when I woke up suddenly to feel the ground beneath my body tremble like a torn piece of paper. —– I sat by the railing as rain water dripped from the roof that [...]

Dust

Anil — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:52:37 +0000

dust storms rage through the city wrapping everything with a thin layer of light brown an innocuous message flapping in the storm suddenly reminds me of you and me wrapped around each other in another world in another time when snow swirled through the air and your hair to land on the edge of your [...]

Skin

Anil — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:47:08 +0000

I leave my skin out in the sun to dry under the upturned bowl of blue white stretch marks season its expanse like speed breakers scars and moles acquire new significance under the harsh glare this small scar under the bend of the eyebrow now stretched out seems like a third eye I was not [...]

The Cost of Cheap Medicines: Antibiotic Pollution in Patancheru

Anil — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:02:15 +0000

(Note: The following story is the result of a series of interviews done with affected villagers, environmental activists, lawyers and other stakeholders along with visits to the affected areas by Anil Cherukupalli and Tushar Dhara in June 2009 as a follow up to news reports referring to a Swedish study that found extremely high concentrations [...]

Observations

Anil — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:56:55 +0000

The curtain on the edge of my finger flutters like a dream shaking off sleep The hills behind the horizon are as still as my heart was on the morning you left The words sit on the page like patient children waiting for the teacher to call their name The tear drops pool on tissues [...]

Change

Anil — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:16:16 +0000

Nearly 4.5 years and 250 odd posts later I thought it was time for some change. As you can see I’ve shifted domains. Do feel free to look around and explore. Many things have changed while some have remained the same. I hope you will like what is to come.

Gujarat Riots: Liquidate the Assets of the Guilty

Karthikeya — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:58:37 +0000

It is heartening to note that the Supreme Court has ordered retrial of Gujarat riots’ cases by fast track courts. Some may argue that “Justice delayed is justice denied”, and indeed the delays thus far in the process are inexcusable. However, what is worth celebrating is the fact that the rule of law has triumphed [...]

From Corbett To Keoladeo

Anil — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:03:07 +0000

(Note: This trip report was first published in the April 2009 edition of Bird watchers’ Society of Andhra Pradesh’s newsletter-Pitta. An edited version of this post was featured in You & I Magazine.) They say that you can never forget your first tiger sighting in the wild. The majestic walk, the earth shattering roar and [...]

Silverline

Anil — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:39:59 +0000

Walking one afternoon on a path that led into thick bushes I came upon him, fully formed and bright. Wings tucked in on the edge of a jagged leaf he sat contemplating perhaps the great drop below. I approached quietly with my viewing box and held it up to my eye. He swam into detail [...]

Inside Corners

Anil — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:50:13 +0000

The beast rose within to smash the mirror of memory that hung on the low wall of self loathing. —– Watermelon dreams stain the skin of summer as she smothers the city in her blazing yellow shamiana. —– A gap in the stars A full stop out of place The twisted sky falls apart The [...]

In These Arms

Anil — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:00:24 +0000

In these arms I gather the loneliness of your dreams as you curl into my corners lost in a shapeless geography. In these arms I gather the trembling lips of dawn as she awakens you from night’s deep dark abandon. In these arms I gather the wet whispers of your hair as they slither between [...]

Dev.D

Anil — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:13:01 +0000

Ever since the growth of the so called ‘multiplex cinema’ it has been fashionable among some quarters to keep stating at regular intervals that the Hindi film industry has finally come of age. In other words, the Hindi film industry has finally shed its insane plots and acquired a global persona that everyone from San [...]

The BJP Wakes Up To India’s Poverty

Tushar — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:10:11 +0000

(This is a post by Jacob Kuncheria. Cheri, as he is known to friends, works for Reuters in Delhi and is interested in development issues, Satyajit Ray films and Hindustani music.) The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has suddenly woken up to the gross underestimation of poverty in India. In Rajya Sabha on Thursday Murli Manohar [...]

Hotel Taj : icon of whose India ?

Tushar — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:56:34 +0000

Watching at least four English news channels surfing from one another during the last 60 hours of terror strike made me feel a terror of another kind. The terror of assaulting one’s mind and sensitivity with cameras, sound bites and non-stop blabbers. All these channels have been trying to manufacture my consent for a big [...]