Abhishek Joshi founded Dog with Blog in 2009 and has grown it into a 100,000-strong community that has helped place 900+ dogs and cats in homes across India. He writes evidence-based pet-care guides, runs verified foster and adoption listings, and tells the stories that move people to adopt.
His writing for Dog with Blog appears in The Book of Dog, an anthology alongside Ruskin Bond, Gulzar, Maneka Gandhi and chef Vikas Khanna.
A cursory glance on facebook and it’s easy to delve in the wave of wedding updates. The delirious setting gets still creepier when the question gets popped out of unassuming corners. At office cubicle, over a cafeteria conversation or an impromptu conversation, there is always someone who wishes to inquire ‘when’ as if the gyrations of the planet depend on a matrimonial.
It is no secret that I don’t believe in humans with a halo over their head ― the ayatollahs, sacrosanct religious gurus and Swami Holier-than-thou and the Ulema Ulysses.
It is the hound I trust in. Period.
Always have. Always will.
The meaning of life Read More »
So it’s really no wonder that when it comes to dating and finding a life partner, someone that likes animals is a plus, and someone that loves dogs is a must. A lot of people in dating sites claim that they like dogs but it turns out that they just click on a box to make themselves sound caring. The real feelings will come across if you’re on a date and you come across a dog and you can see their real reaction to them.
Deal Breaker: Must love dogs. Read More »
All that my paws can find amid ferns are some wedding invites, electricity bills and newspaper inserts. No one has written to me in ages. No, I don’t count the email. I yearn to feel the texture of paper with words in them. Words; written and not typed. Words impregnated with inks of those who held love. Words, weaving tales of a land from far off, of people I know or once knew. Some crisscrosses, scribbles on the marginalia, darkened impressions which seem to stress on the line, conveying a longing to return. Words, written days before and yet not swayed by time. Words with their casual curves which have forgotten to age, the ripening feel that only a cat can conceal and yet, reveal.
…of moist laden envelopes and lost letters Read More »
‘Loyalty’ to most of us, conjures up an image of the dog. Histories inked with their unflinching courage, companionship and love. Researchers would tell you that the smartest of us have a vocabulary of 300 words. But anyone who has ever loved a dog knows different. Although the chances are slim but if not for dogs, I hope you do find someone who loves you as much.
10 loyal dogs who waited for their dead humans Read More »
IF….
If you can live without caffeine,
If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining,
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,
How enlightened are you? Read More »
Little Owen is a loving boy who like kids his age wears a twinkle in the eyes. What separates him from other children is a rare genetic condition called Schwartz Jampel Syndrome which causes his muscles to be permanently tense. At the tender age of seven, the realization of being different can be catastrophic for a young lad. The constant scrutiny of staring eyes wasn’t welcomed by Owen and hence he gradually withdrew from his social interactions and preferred to stay at home.
You need to know this three-legged dog and his best friend! Read More »
I hosted Cathie in the last leg of her Asian trip. She flew down from Montreal for a Vet volunteer progam to help homeless animal friends in Kathmandu. Having known her for three winters, the thought never triggered in me that this mild-mannered French speaking Greek-Canadian girl would rob me of all my hair. I wonder if she got a coat made out of it to brave the North American winds. 🙂
Vet students helping animals in Nepal Read More »
Sitting by the cinders at Himalayan valley, the madness and methods of world don’t really engulf me. It is on such cold evenings that I am reminded of a story Rusty told me in my puppy days. This is a story for my little friends and those of you who still have a kid lurking beneath your mustache and mascara.
So like all stories of yore, it so begins that once upon a time there was a little girl who wanted a puppy. She asked her mother if they could go to the puppy shop and get one little cute ball of fur.
A short story from the dog Read More »
Ten years and counting, a man coming to terms with a broken relation has been left with a cynical take on life and the notion of love. Resigned to the fate of an urban dweller but with roots in hills, he has found his refuge in art and weekend wanderings with his adopted dog ‘Bholu’. On a fateful evening, listening to a radio show he hears a voice he had never forgotten…
Oh, did I tell you it took a decade in the making?
The girl who read Zodiac Read More »
whilst the angst of the society looms large over news channels, print and social media, the word on the street seeks justice. This anger is a necessity and Delhi has no dearth of it. Heck, the wrath that we unleash as road rage would alone suffice! As my incisors wait in earnest to tear through the flesh of the culprit ‘humans’, I hope this cause doesn’t cough up with the passing days but grows into a growl.
Dogs don’t know sin Read More »
I remember how I used to run after the cat, I still do but lately, the lead she has been amassing seems greater. The stars seem to suggest that perhaps I am looking in the wrong light, the answer isn’t in forgetting but celebrating the past that once was.
This is your life! Read More »
A lyrical odyssey of an angry ocean, The Life of Pi visits a familiar set piece; lead character marooned in open waters – Cast Away, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s travels among others albeit with an imagery never seen before and a story webbed with mysticism. Stranded in a boat, a boy and a tiger not only have to define their spaces but to co-exist.
Life of Pi Movie Review (2012): Ang Lee’s Visual Masterpiece & Spiritual Fable Read More »
And it’s winter again. Recollections of wild chase around the pine grove are as afresh as dew drops on rhododendron. The way our paws and whiskers bore smithers
Winter, our time of the year Read More »
Coming afresh from James Heriott’s ‘Vet in Harness’, I was taken straight to a tale which sometimes read like a fairy tale romance. Two strangers separated by maps, bound by graying years meet on an eventful evening and shape the course of their lives. Like an old world romance breathing to life, The Book of Joshua narrates the heartwarming tale of this couple(Tanya Mendonsa and Antonio E Costa) and their animal friends. The lyrical verse painted in earnestness would for sure appeal to dog lovers across geographies. An ode to the bond between (wo)man and canine, the vivid narrative takes the reader right through to the whisker periphery of the protagonist, cocker spaniel ‘Joshua’.
The Book of Joshua review Read More »
Driven by dollars and not ethics, from Enron scandal to Satyam corporate fiasco, integrity is the entity which businesses of our age take for a ride. At times I wonder how fair this whole game would be if we had canine in the cubicle and the board room. With the rare exception of great guru Dogbert, we don’t have a tainted past when it comes to greasing the corporate wheel.
A company run by canine Read More »
Calm as lakes that sleep, her gentle eyes have concealed more than I would ever know. Her calendar has more appointments than days, fine lines crisscrossed along the marginalia. Her eyes brave the storm of apathy that’s there in the world of humans and their hollow notions.
Calm as lakes that sleep Read More »
In a profession which makes him see death too close for comfort (searching cadaver at the bottom of the Naini lake) Hanuman strums all the right notes to the melody that life can be.
For whom the bell tolls… Read More »
There is this mad race of the world. And although the majority would tell you differently, often it is wisest not to participate in it. Pity, it takes an entire lifetime and yet the runners don’t know where the ribbon is and more importantly, why they are running?
In between the bright covers of ‘How Cheeka Became a Star and other Dog Stories’, the canvas on which these stories breathe is sometimes calm as convent and at others riveting as a raccoon. The heartwarming tales blended with remarkable artwork by Tina Rajan give a unique flavor to each story that you would savor long after reading them. An enceinte compendium of alluding narrations from celebrated artists from all walks of life, the book makes for a breezy read.
How Cheeka Became a Star and other Dog Stories – Book review Read More »
I know that many of us think of getting a pet dog, but are deterred by the responsibilities, the changes it will require us to make in our lives, space constraints and also because we genuinely do not want to neglect him or her, due to our hectic work schedules.
Those who found home: Happy B’day Elsa! Read More »
My world is monochrome. My dreams, colorless; retina, colorblind. The world is quiet here. Unlike humans, I see the world in dualities ─ the caressing touch, good; the stoning arm, bad. From neighborhood cats to screeching cars; coffee beans to cinnamon and Christmas to confetti, everything, devoid of color, but for black & white. But I don’t assign attribute to colors; my black is as graceful as my white. The day and the night, shining knights.
Sam Fuller’s masterpiece ‘White Dog’ isn’t a title that has had many viewers and yet those who have sat through two hour run of its sheer brilliance have had their color conscience seriously tested.
Let’s be colorblind ― White Dog movie review Read More »
I am a nameless Indian stray dog.
At the end of that sentence, I still wonder why anybody would be interested in my story or my plight; nevertheless I will go on like I generally do with my life. I scavenge my way around for a meal & look for a quiet corner to rest my scrawny body. It’s a dog’s life.
Sometimes, I wonder regarding the usage of the word dog in so many phrases, a dog’s life
I am a nameless Indian stray dog Read More »
Sometimes it’s not the tale but the art of telling it which makes it great. Au Hasard Balthazar, Robert Bresson’s pièce de résistance is an animal movie unlike any. Every ten years, Sight & Sound polls a wide international selection of film critics and directors on what they consider to be the ten greatest works of cinema ever made, the 2012 list has Au Hasard Balthazar at #16.
Movie review Au Hasard Balthazar – Life in an hour and a half! Read More »
