(August 25, 2021) By Sourabha Rao  Entropy. Perhaps it does not have to be dreadful a realisation that all this is going to decline into nothingness. For after all, can we even fathom nothingness? Perhaps it is that very possibility that brings value and beauty to what is now, here. Would we truly value something that would come with the promise of eternity? Does a part of us savour that rather perverse joy of that hunt – to value and worship something, sometimes above onese...

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(August 02, 2021) Here’s the fourth part of our ‘Birds of Chopta’ series – with the following seven birds and poems dedicated to each one of them. We hope you enjoy it.   Poems by Sourabha Rao. Photo courtesy shared below each image.     1. Speckled wood-pigeon     © Hemant Vashista     for now, there is a tree, and a pigeon the tree, mute and rooted that sense of assurance that only a tree can give the bird, lig...

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