Joel Sherjin My workplace has occasional topic discussion sessions, and recently, I was asked to speak on sustainability in procurement....

The rocks in Moyar date back 2.6–3.0 billion years — almost as old as the Earth itself (the Big Bang was 4.5 billion years ago). Moyar sits on the Moyar Shear Zone (MSZ), a weak seam in Earth’s crust that has been active and reactivated for over 2 billion years by tectonic movements and volcanic activities.

dholes resemble a fusion of wolf and feral dog, albeit more compact. But what they may lack in size, they more than make up for in strategy and endurance. Dholes hunt in packs, employing a collective tactic of chasing prey to exhaustion before launching a coordinated attack—typically from the rear, where the prey is most vulnerable.

“As a child, I was captivated by the image of a giant prehistoric dragonfly soaring across ancient skies, its wings stirring the dust of forgotten worlds. That fascination, first sparked by a Discovery Channel documentary, grew into a lifelong curiosity that took me from the mango groves of my village in southern India to the marshlands of Chennai and the floodplains of the Himalayas. Although I never became a paleontologist, my journey with dragonflies — these relics of deep

It was during one of those golden-hour wanderings that it happened—a herd of deer emerged, gliding through the forest in the amber light. The sight of so many deer moving together, shimmering in the evening sun, was nothing short of cinematic. It felt like I had stepped into a live National Geographic film.