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...
"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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Terai I: Rajaji National Park
Young Rajaji Park tigress waiting for mate for four long years Rajaji National Park The Shivalik-Gangetic plain or the Terai Arc landscape stretches from Kalesar Wildlife Sanctuary in Haryana to...
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