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When I think about my everyday schedule, I seem to be performing like a machine. There are so many tasks that I do every day, exactly in the same way. But what makes me different from an ordinary machine is that while doing these repetitive tasks at the same hours, I am able to observe complexity in triviality. Recently, I had one such experience inside my own house.  For the past seven or eight months, every morning I have been opening an airtight container filled with walnu

Our rooftop is enlivened by a variety of vibrant plants, which my mother carefully tends to and which flourish in various pots. In the hot summers of 2012, a bitter gourd sapling sprouted in a plant pot that my mother nurtured amidst the hoarded things on our terrace. Most of these pots included very old gamlas, broken buckets, and vessels. She would usually spend her evening tea time in the garden, turning the soil with water and some kitchen waste. I would join her now and

Bird Species Report for Delhi (Generated via MYNA Application – State of India’s Birds) This report has been generated using the MYNA application developed under the State of India’s Birds  initiative. An outline of the Delhi region was mapped, and based on citizen science observations, the application produced a comprehensive list of bird species recorded within the city. The data is derived from 314,669 individual observations and 24,218 bird checklists submitted through th

Light has always been one of humanity’s finest discoveries. It was the burning of oil, after all, that lit the long nights of learning and labor, helping us become what we are intellectually and technologically today. Stories of great thinkers burning the midnight oil remind us how light became a necessary companion of knowledge, achievements and of the civilizations itself. But before oil lamps, candles and, much later, the invention of light bulbs and LEDs, Earth was an ent

Subjects like ecology, human ecology, environmental sciences, and environmental studies have rarely been considered “mainstream” academic...

Image 1: Urban spaces as testimonies of co-existence with giloy, monkeys, and kites in the backdrop of the majestic Ghazipur landfill...

“While we have been trying to save the world’s crumbling pre-urban ecosystem, we have been ignoring the fact that nature has already been...

I have always believed that flight—at least for humans—was inspired directly by nature. Perhaps it was the sight of a bird’s effortless...

It must be very hard to be a native tree in the city. Not just because of the consistently drastic environmental changes post-Industrial...

Cities are often portrayed as concrete jungles, lacking meaningful ecological value. However, this narrative erases the presence of...

In the fast-paced, concrete world of Delhi, it’s easy to overlook the fact that our city still chirps, and whistles with life. From...