While listening to well known academician and professor of Environmental Sciences, Mahesh Rangarajan at the release of India’s Environmental History (Permanent Black) that he has edited with Mahesh Rangarajan and K Sivaramakrishnan, I wondered why don’t we have more of these uncomplicated and informal talks ...Read More
This letter was published on the author's blog a few days ago and subsequently Mr Shyam Benegal has distanced himself from Vedanta..we publish this piece here to inform more readers why it is important to see through Vedanta's attempt to mislead ...Read More
She waved good bye as she left for school, trying to manage her raincoat hood and blue umbrella – her own little sky, as she’d always quip. Her tiny shoulders bearing the weight of her school bag and this ...Read More
The neem tree.. it swayed gently green... so green right outside my window. Beautiful, majestic, grand. The home of squirrels..and the birds. It buzzed with the symphony of life while I stared at it dreamily many a morning and then last evening.. I saw my beloved tree naked..stripped off all her ...Read More
Wipro has retained the top slot in environmental NGO Greenpeace's latest Guide to Greener Electronics. HCL Infosystem is placed second in the Indian version. The international version ranks the IT manufacturing company HP at the top, taking the lead over ...Read More
The State government in Manipur is forcefully evicting families living on Loktak. Since Tuesday, the State police has used brute force to chase alleged illegal settlers away from their homes, including burning nearly 200 huts. It is being alleged that ...Read More
Someone very wise once said,“A worn out newspaper can last forever!" This is a brave statement to make in a world where the tap root of consumerism lies in greed for more and wastefulness of both natural and man made ...Read More
When Manas National Park was removed from the UNESCO World Heritage Danger List in June this year, there was a lot to cheer about. The hard work put in by conservation groups has been recognised, but a bigger danger lies ...Read More
To make a jungle safari spine-chilling, breathtaking, and totally remarkable, you will need a driver-cum-guide who knows the jungle like the back of his hand, a freshly prepared unfenced camp site, a lean and dark Masai for protection, eerie animal ...Read More
On the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a friend sent to me some documentary footage about the day when nothing out of the ordinary had happened in Hiroshima. People were working, heeding traffic lights, having tea and then in ...Read More
A live wire left unattended on ground killed Sunita, a little school girl a few days back in Bangalore. A rag picker also fell in an open drain and died. These are not stray incidents. They happen time and again to claim lives ...Read More
If you live in Bangalore, hacked limbs of trees piled up by the roadside are commonplace. Avenues once drenched in the deep, dense shade of tree canopies are today rubble strewn, choking with traffic. Trees that have been part of our ...Read More
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