The Earth as we knew it is undergoing some kind of alterations. Climate change is here to stay and demands that we notice and feel it. Can we adapt to these turmoils in the natural world around us? How can we continue to survive as a species? Can we record the current upheavals of nature and celebrate it’s bounty, thus recording it for the future? Is our species been responsible for upsetting the natural balance? What can we do to restore harmony between humans and the Earth with its myriad life forms? Here we have a writings of current day writers voicing concerns on climate change, the environment and at times, celebrating the Earth in prose and poetry — some fictitious and some real.We dedicate this section to posterity.
Poetry
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Fires in Los Angeles, Green, Eco Poetry, Wildfires in Uttarakhand, Hurricane Laura’s Course, The Bird’s Funeral, Sunset, Declaring the Universe Open, Winter Consumes, House of Birds, Weeding and Gardens, Apertures, Secrets of the Evening Sky, Lunar Talk, Becoming, Tillandsia, This Heat Wave, Hot Dry Summers, A Tender Rain, Shadowlands, A Visit to the Sky, Beneath the Baobab Tree, A Place of Solitude & Rest?, The Hawk in the Moonlight, What I said in My Meeting with the Sea, Evolutions: Past and Future, Sunrise from Tiger Hill , Spring Poems, Seasonal Poems, Sparrows, Under the Rock Crags, He Brushes in the Sky, Heralding Spring, Final Chapter in the History of Atonement, Tusker Trail , Wildfires in the Wind, Moonlight, Before the Chill, One Jujube, Purple Deadnettle, Global Warming in Verse, Nature Poems, Seeds Fall to the Ground, In Another Galaxy, Bar-headed Geese, Postcards from the Ledge, Dangerous Co-existence, Poetry on Rain, Unanswered, Rani Pink, Beneath the Trees, (Otherwise) Ridiculous, Eclipse, The New Understanding, Two Seasons, Early Winter, Spring Poems, In the Coldest Desert, Colours, Snow Drift, You Tree, Corals, From Traigh Beach, Hawk and Sparrow, What Colour is the Sun, The Other Side of Summer, Extreme Drought, Clouds & Rain, Quietly, Winter’s Score, What Stories, Mosquitoes, The Colour of Time, The Wasp, Whistle & Fly, Trouts, A Falling Frost, Vanilla Gorilla & More Mammals, Murrel, Birds, The Spider Web, The Mysteries of the Universe, Drunken Cockroach, Katsaridaphoia, Cicadas in the Rain, Carnival of Animals, Kissing Frogs, One Last Time, Memory, The Beeman, Movement, After the Rain, Gaia breathes Again, Uprooted, This Island of Mine
Prose
Pothos: Rakhi Pande gives us a fiction about a woman and her inner journey embroiled in the vines of money plant. Click here to read.
Sumana Roy & Trees: An online interview with Sumana Roy, a writer and academic. Click here to read.
Four Seasons and an Indian Summer: Keith Lyons talks of his experiences of seasons in different places, including Antarctica. Click here to read.
Captain Andi is in love: In a fiction, P Ravi Shankar explores a future beyond climate change in Malaysia. Click here to read.
Potable Water Crisis & the Sunderbans: Camellia Biswas, a visitor to Sunderbans during the cyclone Alia, turns environmentalist and writes about the potable water issue faced by locals. Click here to read.
The Malodorous Mountain: A Contemporary Folklore: Sayantan Sur looks into environmental hazards due to shoddy garbage disposal. Click here to read.
Navigational Error: Luke P.G. Draper explores the impact of pollution with a short compelling narrative. Click here to read.
In Owls in Ginza, Suzanne Kamata takes us to visit an Owl Cafe. Click here to read.
Orangutans & a School at Sarawak: Christina Yin, a conservationist, travels to Borneo in an attempt to create awareness for conserving the Orangutan. Click here to read.
Tsunami 2004: After 18 years: Sarpreet Kaur travels back to take a relook at the tsunami in 2004 from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Click here to read
Better Relations Through Weed-pulling: Suzanne Kamata introduces us to an annual custom in Japan. Click here to read.
The Toughness of Kangaroo Island : Vela Noble draws solace and lessons from nature around her with her art and narrative. Click here to read.
Black Pines and Red Trucks: Meredith Stephens shares the response of some of the Californian community to healing after the 2020 forest fires with a narrative and photographs. Click here to read.
Climate Change: Are You for Real?: Candice Louisa Daquin explores the issue. Click here to read.
The Theft of a River: Koushiki Dasgupta Chaudhuri tells a poignant truth about how a river is moving towards disappearance due to human intervention. Click here to read.
The Gift : Rebecca Klassen shares a sensitive fiction about a child and an oak tree. Click here to read.
Pigeons & People : In his fiction, Srinivasan R explores human nature and imagines impact on our fauna. Click here to read
Monsoon Arc: In his fiction, K.S. Subramaniam shows the human spirit pitched against the harshness of monsoon storms. Click here to read.
In A Golden Memory of Green Day in Japan, Suzanne Kamata tells us of a festival where she planted a tree in the presence of the Japanese royalty. Click here to read.
Bhaskar Parichha reviews Will Cockrell’s Everest, Inc. The Renegades and Rogues who Built an Industry at the Top of the World. Click here to read.
Landslide In Wayanad Is Only The Beginning: Binu Mathew discusses the recent climate disaster in Kerala and contextualises it. Click here to read.
A Manmade Disaster or Climate Change?: Salma A Shafi writes of floods in Bangladesh from ground level. Click here to read.
A Penguin’s Story: Sreelekha Chatterjee writes a fiction from a penguin’s perspective. Click here to read.
More Frequent Cyclones to Impact Odisha: Bijoy K Mishra writes of cyclones in Odisha, while discussing Bhaskar Parichha’s Cyclones in Odisha – Landfall, Wreckage and Resilience. Click here to read.
A discussion on managing cyclones, managing the aftermath and resilience with Bhaksar Parichha, author of Cyclones in Odisha: Landfall, Wreckage, and Resilience. Click here to read.
‘Climate change matters to me, and it should matter to you too’: Zeeshan Nasir writes of the impact of the recent climate disasters in Pakistan, with special focus on Balochistan. Click here to read.
The Day the Earth Quaked : Amy Sawitta Lefevre gives an eyewitness account of the March 28th earthquake from Bangkok. Click hereto read.
Rakhi Dalal reviews Rajat Chjaudhuri’s Wonder Tales for a Warming Planet. Click here to read.
Bhaskar Parichha reviews Jagadish Shukla’s A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory. Click here to read.
Md Mujib Ullah writes a short cli-fi based on real life events. Click here to read.
Meredith Stephens writes of how global warming is impacting marine life in South Australia. Click here to read.
G Venkatesh muses on the tug of war between sustainabilty, ecology and economies. Click here to read.
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