Mumbai : my city
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Who is Olive Ridley? This is Olive Ridley – a turtle that was once a regular visitor to Mumbai’s shoreline. Every year the turtles would use the stretch of beach in Versova to lay their eggs and hatch their little ones. In fact 35 beaches in my home state of Maharashtra is the nursery for Read more
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Once a tall, proud, tree all that remains is a crudely hacked stump. For years I used to pass this tree on the way to my bank. I can’t remember what it was because it was so tall. But now that it was cut to size, I recognised it as the stump of what Read more
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As I sit in my daughter’s apartment in central New Jersey, I realise that something’s missing . Noise . In my city of 19 million souls ( Mumbai’s) I normally wake up to the sound of a rude alarm. Then comes the hiss of a pressure cooker , in a house somewhere, as the contents Read more
Twenty- five Seven 