Days of Insouciance

When the sun shone bright and life wore pink, And the armour had in it no chink. The world was free and the world was fair, And we had in it not a trivial care. Life was a song and life was a dance, And for misery there was but no chance. Now those times…

The Magic of the Tiger

Tigers have been for millenia strongly associated with myth, religion and spirituality, particularly as the steed of Goddess Durga, the destroyer of evil.  Ancient peoples of the Indian jungles believed tigers to possess supernatural powers, and revered them for the same as divine protectors against unforeseeable calamities. In fact the Bhagavad Gita professes such: “Do…

Boxed In?

The adorable Chorbehra female spends a moment to reflect on things amid a thorough cleaning session. One evening we witnessed her frenetically attempting to find a place to cross over to the other side of the highway that cuts through Tala, but was of course hindered in her endeavour by the fence that has been…

A Message from a Tigress

  “O man of ineptitude, if you can’t see my beauty, look, at least, into my eyes, and you shall see your own pulchritude. Have the sagacity to save my abode, and you shall save your own world. Life but gives many chances; grasp one. Grasp not the axe to sever me into oblivion, for…