Whispers of the Wild

Meditation on Birds, Fatherly love, Radium stars, and Plum cakes

Namaste Readers,

Thank you for your presence and the light that you share with this world. I am grateful that you are here at Berkana. I see you.

Perhaps we are all fragments of the universe, temporarily assuming form and senses to marvel at its infinite glory, to confront its myriad horrors.

Days are shorter here in the south now, but they still seem a tad bit longer than on the eastern coast of the subcontinent. The Tropic of Cancer (one of the Euclidean lines of the European conquest) dissects India right in the middle, forming two climatic zones. The central region is sub-tropical, while the north is temperate to highland climate, and the south is tropical in nature. Due to such variations, the experience of winter varies across the country. You could be sipping piña colada in Goa or enjoying hot chocolate in Shimla, depending on whether you want to spend Christmas in a port city of the former Estado da Índia (Portuguese State of India) or the former Himalayan outpost of the Britis…