Hello World-Welcome to Wildandhappy.org

Hey People,
Welcome to “Wild and Happy”

First the name (there is a lot in the name!)

Why are we “wild and happy”? I was desperately hunting for a good name for my blog and was frustrated that anything I thought about had already been taken. So, there was Rooted.com, wildernessredefined.com, .org, etc, etc, etc. Imagine the dent to my creativity! And then this friend, whom I had asked to suggest me a name, announced that he is starting a blog by the name, “Wild and Happy.” How incorrigible one could be? I asked him to suggest a name for my blog, and there he was, starting his own. This act demanded revenge. And Ladies and Gentlemen, here is our blog: “Wild and Happy.” Don’t worry, this is not stolen, the friend will be a regular contributor here and I have promised to give him another name for his blog (that is when he feels like posting!).

Wild and happy is a lot about environment and wildlife and all the more about personal experiences while dealing with these issues. We are not going to preach about global warming, pollution, save forests…blah…blah…blah. It is more about the people dealing with these problems and learning to modulate to deal with them, about the people who suffer due to them and how easily we have chosen to ignore them, how we have great figures to quote when making a presentation about impact of pollution, etc,etc, but not the faces of everyday life heroes who brave these problems and are happy in their adversity.

And it is about personal experiences that you and I encounter when we go places and look at these problems from the other side. You are all welcome to share really wild experiences, of places and situations where you thought you were really stuck but did come back, alive and HAPPY. Everything that surrounds you is environment, so feel free to share anything and everything you think is important for lives around you to know. Or something they already know but never voice!

Through this, I also want to share my experiences of Indians and the country we live in (I have deliberately put it the other way round) that are mostly based on my travel assignments as an environment journalist besides the stories that I do for my publication.

So, here we go!

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