Stray Dogs: Understanding, Compassion, and Friendship For much of my life, I was neither a dog lover nor someone with a strong aversion to stray dogs. Our relationship was built on a cautious distance—a mutual “you do you” understanding. So much so that sometimes when the number of strays in the vicinity increased I have even raised a request with GHMC to take corrective measures. However, everything changed a few months ago when we adopted a rescued puppy. That experience opened my eyes to the world of stray dogs and led to a fundamental shift in my perspective. Taking a […]
Yearly Archives: 2024
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Friday, after picking up the kids from school we went to walk Baggu at Neopolis. As we were walking back after a nice long walk a family was walking towards us. I shortened Baggus leash and kept walking. As we got close the child lunged to pet and cuddle the “cute puppy”. I pulled back the dog and quickly told the parents “he’s teething, he might nip and bite”. They reeled in the kid, smiled and moved on. I know this is quite unlike the usual daro mat daro mat yeh kaatata nahin hai… (don’t worry he does not bite)… […]
We were recently in Georgia, for the summer vacations. One thing that hit me the moment we landed at the airport was the smell of cigarette smoke in the air. That stayed for the duration of the stay. Everyone smokes, freely and without guilt. The second thing I noticed driving through the city from the airport and then all through our stay in the country, multiple cities, was dogs. The country is overrun by dogs. All dogs on the street that are not pets have yellow colored tabs on their ears signifying that they are vaccinated and safe. The dogs […]
around 20+ years ago, when we were not yet married, we used to pass by this fancy Chinese restaurant by the name of Lings Pavilion while walking around town. Just out of school we were on our first jobs making little to almost negligible monthly salaries. We didn’t really have the courage to go in and eat at that place. I have always been the risk taking, let’s go jump off the cliff and see where we land sort of person, and Sonali has always been the “yes lets, whatever happens we’re in it together” sort of person. So one […]
the reason why all our lives most humans continue to chase success and happiness and never really decisively attain it is because we never take the time to disconnect and workshop success/happiness… defining what constitutes happiness/success for you is what is most important… because attaining a goal you have clearly defined is a very simple task… but first clearly defining the ask is key… As a result you keep chasing after definitions that the world around you has set… and the world around you keeps changing as you keep arriving at every new stage of life… the next big car […]