Category: COVID-19
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Avid Birding in Covid Times: Experience from Guwahati
Fizala Tayebulla This post is a personal account of birds that I have curated from my “Corona_Birding_Ghy” photo album. I understand that maybe not everyone is crazed about birding as an activity. It is tedious, often accompanied by neck strain from looking upwards through branches of tall trees for long periods (or until one is…
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Water Scarcity Amidst CoVID-19
Himanshu Choudhery Ever since the CoVID-19 pandemic began, people around the world are constantly being told to maintain social distancing and also frequently wash their hands with soap. While washing hands may be effective against germs, washing hands at regular interval also means using large quantities of water. The increased consumption of water in a…
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Every story has a Beginning, a Middle and an End
Fizala Tayebulla In the following passages, I have tried to briefly describe the crux of human-nature conditions in real-time scenarios of status-quo ante and status-quo, and another one in an hypothetical future that we are yet to shape, hopefully from nothing less than from a standpoint of sweeping, scrupulous review. In the field that…
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Battered Bats
Himanshu Choudhery Introduction While the whole world is in a quest to find an antidote for COVID-19 and stop the massive loss of human lives, scientists are also vigorously trying to trace the origins of the deadly coronavirus 2. But before there is any clarity on the matter, people all around the globe are already…
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Farming During Lockdown
Shiwani After a long time, today, I went out for a walk in the fields which are barely a 2-minute walk from my house. I must also tell you that, like a responsible person, I adhered to all the social distancing norms while venturing out. My house is located in the Gurugram district of the…
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Animal Movement and Human Response Amidst the Lockdown
Shashank Bhardwaj As most people around the globe sit at home to fight the global pandemic (COVID-19), the hustle and bustle of most city streets are missing. To curb this pandemic, many countries have adopted social distancing measures, including partial and complete nationwide lockdowns. While such drastic measures may be important, there’s no denying the…
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In Times of a Pandemic: (Re)thinking Relationships with Earth Others
Kartik Chugh It was the last week of 2019 when health authorities in China notified the world about a novel virus outbreak in their communities. An increasingly growing number of people were developing a dry cough and fever before getting pneumonia. Doctors named this disease COVID-19 (or Coronavirus Disease 2019) which was caused by a…
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COVID-19: A Long Pending Break for Nature?
Vijaylakshmi Suman It has been 10 days since Delhi went under lockdown. The enormity of COVID-19 became evident when the World Health Organization declared it as a pandemic and a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The outbreak will certainly be remembered as one of the most devastating events in the history of mankind…
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Where Humans and Virus Meet
Ajay Immanuel Gonji At a time when the world is reeling under the impact of the deadly CoVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) outbreak, I find myself, probably like many others, trying to come to terms with my new sedentary lifestyle. Besides other things, I spend at least a couple of hours each day on news networks,…
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Sightings of Lesser Whistling Ducks in the middle of the city amidst Corona lockdown
Fizala Tayebulla Most of us have hopefully managed to access some secure place for the emergency lockdown brought upon by the Corona virus pandemic. I, for one was fortunately able to travel back home to Guwahati, Assam timely, a few days before the travel ban in India. Taking a while to settle down at home…