The Hunt with olive ridley turtles in rushikulya in the eastern coast of india Winner of Sanctuary Asia Wildlife Service Award A thing of beauty! In NSTR

"The choice is ours to make: Will we stand by silent, and watch the slaughter? Watch the forests fall? Watch, as wild creatures fall off the map of India? Do we want an India that is silenced of the roar of the tiger? Do we want to live in a country where forests are barren, its land infertile? Or will we stand up and fight? So that we do not tell our children, ‘Once were tigers....." If not, help us, help them.

02nd Jul 2009
Review: Witness to extinction

Review: Witness to extinction

I hope i never get the occasion to write such a book, but i wish that i have the courage and the sensitivity to do so… Witness to Extinction: How We Failed...

02nd Jul 2009
Book Review: Witness to Extinction

Book Review: Witness to Extinction

i hope i never get the occasion to write such a book, but i wish that i have the courage and the sensitivity to do so… Witness to Extinction: How...

28th Jun 2009
An interview with Jairam Ramesh

An interview with Jairam Ramesh

Coming after Baalu and Raja, frankly, any minister is a Godsend. There are simply no standards to meet. I do not imagine things can get any worse.After an initial statement...

25th May 2009
There’s a tiger in my soup……

There’s a tiger in my soup……

Something I wrote on tiger farms…long back How do you want your Royal Bengal Tiger? Wild and free, as befitting the true king of beasts? Or chopped and brewed into...

14th May 2009
Extinction

Extinction

“So what if the tiger goes extinct,” argued the economist, “And, err, what was that you mentioned, the bustard. Who knows it exists? Who will know if it goes?” this...

10th May 2009
On the tiger hunt….

On the tiger hunt….

Enjoy this poem-authored by a Bengali teacher-or so the story goes.. Through the jongole I am wentOn shooting Tiger I am bent Boshtaard Tiger has eaten wifeNo doubt I will...

05th May 2009
UPA on the environment scale

UPA on the environment scale

‘F’ for failed-is how Bittu Sahgal, Editor, Sanctuary Asia, rates the current government performance on the environment scale, and I couldn’t agree with him more. In its steady (or should...

23rd Apr 2009
The Enemy Within

The Enemy Within

Simlipal Tiger Reserve has been ravaged by naxals. We (i was accompanied by Adiya Panda) were the first to go in and witness the devastation Here is an account… A...