Hira Jhamtani | Dec 26, 2017 | Featured, Journey and people, Nature and Life
MatruPitruVandanam celebrates the divinity of mother and father, and therefore the divinity of human beings. I feel its a concept of finding divinity from ‘within” by respecting the divinity of parents. Some years ago, I had a conversation with one of my nephews. Let...
Hira Jhamtani | Jul 18, 2016 | Nature and Life
In the aftermath of the devastating 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, experts reminded everyone about the vital role of mangroves. If mangroves were left intact, they could have formed a buffer to protect the inland population. But mangroves have been treated...
Hira Jhamtani | Jun 26, 2016 | Nature and Life
Written almost thirteen years ago. I post this today to remind all of us, not much has changed. Indonesia just faced one of the worst forest and land fires, floods, landslides are as common now as then. And there is the addition of technology disaster such as the...
