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  My Mother   In the lazy afternoon I was sleeping on her cot while a frail hand was touching my face – my mother is watching me sleeping. Don't know how long she was there but in her presence I slept again and when I got up it was well past 5 PM. All through this time she was sitting there fanning my head with a magazine so that I don't feel the sweltering heat of Kolkata when there was a scheduled power cut for a brief period.   She is my mother – She knows my character ins and out while I hardly know how much unfathomable capacity she holds for making sacrifice for us – her four children.   Due to persistent requests from her grand children one day she opens her trunk and in it she takes out her prized possessions.   Benarasi sari on her wedding day, our old dresses , sweaters , fathers coat , shawl f...

It’s for their world too: We, homo sapiens are the highest type of species to occupy this earth. But we should never forget that this green earth is also the home of 30 million other species with whom we share this blue planet. Killing animals for food is universal rule set by the almighty god many million years back, this also keeps the number of animals in order. But killing animals or let the animals die for someone’s selfish cause is not acceptable by mother nature. It’s cruelty ! Also if they have to be extinct for my cause then my days are numbered as well!   … Ash dykes are ... Despite utmost efforts of our patrollers to steer them away, on rare occasions poor animals get trapped in the marshy mud lands of our ash dykes. Most of the times they come out of their own but sometimes we have to help them out because due to excessive exertions & struggles to free themselves out, they become so much fatigued that they no longer be able to move. If gone unnoticed, the ...