Abhishek Joshi founded Dog with Blog in 2009 and has grown it into a 150,000-strong community that has helped place more than 1,000 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.
Engrained into the Scottish folklore like bagpipes, the story of the love and a loyalty of a dog, Greyfriars Bobby is the stuff of legend and has been the subject of Hollywood movies and numerous books, Our Swede friend Virve shares her experience on visiting Bobby’s shrine.
Greyfriars Bobby ― Scottish legend of a dog’s loyalty Read More »
All that’s grace and poise, elegance and trance, I found neither in tapestries nor tiara but in a lady with her dog.
The Lady with the Dog Read More »
“The signs of wisdom”, the old man said, “are the realizations that the volume knob also turns left and the fact that best of friends come with a tail and a cold, wet nose”.
Sometimes in between the paragraph
while you look for that lost word
or when you draw that doodle on the marginalia
a pencil dangling in your slender fingers
caressing that lock of untamed hair…
When I close my eyelids deterring to the noise of the world ─ a cauldron about to bubble over, veering my thoughts to all that will remain placid and unchanged by time, oblivious to the humans passing me by, there by the orchard Rusty forever be chasing my demons away. To her I would always be the boy who never grew up.
