The Dreamer's Diary

Tourist shares pic of Jim Corbett safari guide consuming tobacco, official reacts A visitor from Chandigarh said his guide at Jim Corbett National Park consumed tobacco during a safari, offered it to foreign tourists, and showed little interest in wildlife, prompting a response from park authorities. - Economic Times, Ocr, 2025  Gypsy drivers, guides caught on camera harassing tigress, cubs; suspended by Nagpur authorities Nagpur wildlife sanctuary suspends gypsy drivers and guides for harassing a tigress and her cubs, shocking incident caught on camera, watch. - KalingaTV Bureau On Jan 5, 2025  In a bizarre incident, a sub-adult male tiger died at Bandhavgarh National Park after it crept under a tourist vehicle whose driver panicked on seeing the tiger and ran over it. The incident happened on April 21 and the tiger was found dead three days later with injuries on the ribs and lungs. The driver of the vehicle has been arrested and has been booked for poaching! - Hindustan Tim...

We Indians don’t just worship occasionally. We worship like it’s a national sport. In fact, if worship were an Olympic event, we’d bring home every gold medal and then build a temple for the gold medal.   It all started like it does for homosapeince everywhere — with fear. Fire? Scary. Storm? Terrifying. Flood? Better pray it stops. Earthquake? Impossible to control.  So what did we do? We invented Gods out of these forces, just to feel less powerless. “If you can’t fight it… garland it.” That became our motto.   The rest of the world eventually decided, “Hey, maybe we can study these things scientifically and find ways to deal with them.” They still pray now and then, but they also invest in weather satellites and earthquake-resistant buildings.  We, on the other hand, upgraded our worship — not by replacing it, but by expanding it. We built this fascinating ecosystem where you can work in IT, own the latest smartphone, travel in the metro… and still belie...