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.
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
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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 »
In my growing up years, Chintu was my best friend. We would talk of the world, from chasing cats to getting rid of milk (usually on the flower pot when Maa wasn’t looking.) We were inseparable but then logic crept in. Chintu is a stuffed teddy bear and toys are for kids. I abandoned him to move on with my newly found mind. Yet despite all these years, engraved fresh in my memories, Chintu remains the emblem of my childhood. Ted is a funny…
Ted movie review: Not your average cuddly teddy bear! Read More »
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep…
Wake up Neo…errr…everyone! Read More »
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer
I have been preoccupied in working on a series of poems that addresses the hitherto neglected segment of Canine literature. By this I mean, not literature about Canines, but literature by canines.
