by Muqbil Ahmar | Aug 12, 2018 | Travel & Lifestyle
Wildlife has been at the receiving end in the event of untamed development and human-animal conflict. Poaching has been a big environmental issue in India and is rampant. The World Elephant Day was set up on 12 August 2012 to mobilize support for conservation of Asian...
by Syeda Ambia Zahan | Jul 29, 2018 | Home, Travel & Lifestyle
Some good news for tiger and wildlife conservationists at this International Tiger Day. The Royal Bengal Tiger is thriving as well as multiplying at the Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park (RGONP). This national park has the highest density of tigers, which is higher...
by Parineeta Dandekar | Jun 27, 2018 | Home, Initiatives, Travel & Lifestyle
In moments of lucidity, Mississippi remembers an old friend, an old timorous friend, a nimble, whistling old friend flowing a basin across. The Pascagoula. Pascagoula River has only one famous story. How many stories can an 80 mile river have? Her people use it to...
by Muqbil Ahmar | Jun 26, 2018 | Ecofriendly & Tech, Home, Travel & Lifestyle
By Ranjan K Panda — There has been a new wave of admiration in India of our traditional knowledge, which has emerged in public discourse. But it’s not reflected in ways the State wants to manage our own forests. Politicians, intellectuals, and bureaucrats...
by Parineeta Dandekar | Jun 17, 2018 | Home, Initiatives, Travel & Lifestyle
Mississippi is a phenomenon. A large body of water flowing down a slope towards the sea is perceived as so many disparate things by different people at different times and places. Some say that if you want to understand the continent, you have to understand this...
by Syeda Ambia Zahan | Jun 3, 2018 | Ecofriendly & Tech, Fashion and Food, Home, Travel & Lifestyle
Do you remember how the national capital city of Delhi became a gas chamber after Diwali, with immense air pollution? One of the major reasons was the burning of agricultural stubble by farmers in Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh. Though the Delhi government tried...