As I write this, sitting in Mumbai, one of the most crowded, polluted, and noisiest cities on Earth, an excruciating noise emanating from a drilling machine plays in the background, frustrating me no end. That is not the only man-made … Read More
MUMBAI: Twenty-seven NGOs from India, Vietnam, USA, UK, Canada, South Africa and Germany, on November 18, 2020, published an open letter to lawmakers in China urging them to act to reduce demand for wild animal species threatened with extinction. Photo … Read More
The threat of wildlife crime has always loomed large over wildlife in India. Be it the hunting and poaching of charismatic, larger mega-fauna such as the tiger and the Indian one-horned rhino, or the lesser-known and lesser protected ungulates and … Read More
Over the past few months, I have been consistently coming across rather disturbing news from all over the world, the headlines for which when read together could pass off for a ‘fictional’ doomsday film plot. But, this is real life. … 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
The world is currently battling a pandemic of unprecedented proportions and bats have been prematurely implicated as the source of COVID-19. Recent social media posts and unverified opinions about bats have led to widespread antipathy and fear in the general … 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
The first time I visited Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in Mumbai was during the monsoon of 2018. Light showers made it look as inviting as ever. It was quite an experience to be walking on trails which, in certain … Read More
Could art be cruel? Could it kill? The purpose of art, among others, is also the portrayal and appreciation of beauty. How can it then be self-defeating and exterminate the very forms of life that are its muse? Some of … Read More