Graphic Reflections

Electricity is in short supply in India, millions here, specially in rural areas, don’t have access to regular electricity and yet it is not hard to find mismanagement or wasteful use of electricity in Indian cities, an irony that this graphic tries to convey. Many commercial centers and markets are ostentatiously lit up in urban India; during Diwali festival, buildings are profusely lit up and lighting decoration contests are held in some cities; government buildings and landmarks are sometimes lit up all night! What if electricity is used judiciously, electronic displays and Diwali decorations are put up with restraint and the electricity thus saved is diverted to rural areas?

How time seems to fly when we have no time at our hand and drag when we have plenty of time! One wonders if this relative speed of time has got something to do with how much need we have (or don’t have) to look at time

Come October and a great many indistinct trees in the plains of India seem to start speaking! Warblers arrive from the hills and countries up north and set trees abuzz with their constant, muffled calls. One of the most common warblers to visit the plains of India in winters is the Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca, the call of which has been portrayed in this animated graphic. Lesser Whitethroats continuously move and hop around the trees they visit and while at it, utter their call incessantly.

The debate on global warming  seems to be over with some of the most credible publications and journals publishing conclusive reports about it being real! One significant reason for global warming is a sharp decline in our planet’s forest cover due to human pressure and even greed, owing to which the ability of our planet to absorb carbon dioxide has been weakening. It seems as if our planet is running low on climate sustaining battery: trees!