An extraordinary relationship between two living entities that goes back 70-90 million years, since the time of the reign of the dinosaurs, is bound to be that much more special and specialised, to the point of mutual obligation. The ubiquitous … Read More
“What we have learned was that conservation depends not only on protection but also on connection,” wrote Thomas E. Lovejoy and Edward O. Wilson in The New York Times in 2015. With the emerging awareness and focus on the importance … Read More
Small protection huts, better known as anti-poaching camps (APCs), dot the tiger reserves across India. Men and women in uniforms keep flitting in and out of these camps. There are rangers, other senior forest officials, forest guards and special tiger … Read More
The pandemic has forced much of humanity to retreat in the hopes of containing the virus. On March 25, 2020, India announced the world’s largest lockdown in a massive effort to combat the spread of the infection. While most citizens … Read More
On the fateful night of April 26, 1986, as the world slept, a nuclear disaster of unimaginable scale unfolded in northern Ukraine. One of the nuclear reactors of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded spewing radioactive substances over the next … Read More
Soil. Have you ever, even for a brief moment, stopped to wonder about this fundamental resource? How easy it is to overlook the omnipresent soil, because, hey, it is always there, inert and infinite. I will have you know that … Read More
National Wildlife Week 2019 Special: Intricate and complex interconnectedness of natural living systems is perhaps beyond man’s comprehension. As much as we claim to know about species, habitats and their ecology, we are left humbled and stumped at every juncture. It … Read More
Recently, one of my friends gave birth to a healthy baby girl. While I am overjoyed for my friend, the planet-lover in me cringes at the news of every new human birth. I cannot help but think, “why couldn’t they … Read More