ENLIGHTENMENT GAINED FROM HARVARD EDX COURSE

I had never viewed myself as someone who would oppose the idea of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). I never knew enough about this topic to form solid opinions about it. I was in view that if people want to have their own biological children, they should have the right to …

MEETUP WITH ADV. YESHWANT SHENOY SIR

On 16 August 2021, I was blessed with an opportunity to meet the esteemed Adv. Yeshwant Shenoy sir. As part of my online summer internship, I worked under sir’s guidance and drafted my first legal draft. In the month of August, I visited my hometown for the sole purpose of …

Meeting M.C Mehta-ji!!!

On March 12, 2019, I had the blessed opportunity to meet the best environmental lawyer of India, Mr. M.C Mehta. In my 5th semester of B.Sc Environmental Sciences, we had a subject, “Environmental Law” under which we learnt the basics of the Indian Constitution and Public Interest Litigation (PIL) cases. …

Wishful Thinking

  This was something I uploaded as my story on Instagram(@_pikamenon_). The post itself is self-explanatory. Everytime I read the newspaper, I get frustrated by the happenings in our world. There are times when i wish if everything would just pause and if the world would start to humanize humanity.

Lock-down For Us, Level-Up For The Environment

 LOCK-DOWN FOR US, LEVEL-UP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT    Remember when the first ever plague began? Of course, it was in the 6th century, in Egypt. It spread to Constantinople which was the then capital of Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire. It is now the current state of Instanbul, Turkey. Another strain of the …

Norwegian Wood- Mental health review

India is under lockdown due to the Corona Virus and now I’m back at home, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, attending online classes (extra online classes for me, to sync the lateral entry problems -_– )  I just wanted to upload a post about a book which I read in the month …

Mysterious Stairways

After having a lavish meal from Xero Degrees, a café in Cannought Palace, Delhi, India,   my friend and I took a 1.3km walk to Hailey Road and we were stopped on our path by the magnificence of a beautiful street art. It was that of a woman trying to …

Tiger in the Wayanad Tunnel

A few weeks ago, I sent an email to Project Tiger requesting them to declare Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary as a Tiger Reserve for protecting the tigers and to reduce disturbances towards the human settlements there. Before I tell you about their response, let me give you some facts about the …

Right To Make Noise

It feels good to be back, to be writing down blog articles again. I’m sorry about that short break. Life is a mixture of chaotic noises for everyone. Call it a cacophony. Sometimes meaningless, sometimes it leaves us trying to find it through oblivion, and sometimes, we just have to …

Eye Of The Tiger

I despise zoological parks. Zoos are considered as a place for entertainment in India by presenting the wildlife enclosed in tiny enclosures to the visitors who tease and mock them. Today, on 25th July, 2019,  my friends and I volunteered for World Wildlife Fund’s Global Tiger Day program held at …