Kumbh Raises A Stink

A city that celebrated the festival of faith months ago, is on the verge of an epidemic.

Mortgaging Our Ecological

A climate change narrative lost in rhetoric and catchy metaphors.

Farmers Rights Are A Hot Potato

The fallout between US major PepsiCo and Gujarat’s potato growers underlines the looming threat to farmers’ rights in India over ownership of seeds.

20 Facts You Did Not Know About.......... Einstein

Albert Einstein has been termed as a scientist of the century and has become a synonyms of intellect.

Yeti-Abominable Snowman: Mysteries And Myths Of The Himalayas

The Yeti is a character in ancient legends and folklore of the Himalaya people.

Staphylococcus Pseudintermedius: A Bacteria On The Rise

Bacteria are grossly categorized into gram positive and gram negative based on certain cellular characteristics.

Ready To Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF)

Ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) is a high calorie, nutrient-dense paste (spread) which is the most widely used outpatient treatment for severe acute malnutrition.

Onion Bulb: A Nutritional Pouch

“In exchange for a few tears, you can take a lot of health benefits from onion”

Heavy Metals Toxicity: A Rising Concern In India

India is the developing country and due to industrialization and modernization, is leaving powerful impact at the global level on technical ground.

Food Adulteration And Its Household Methods For Detection

The replacement of substance or material for another, such that a manufactured product is incorrectly labelled and/or dosage information is not in accordance with US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) requirements generally termed as adulteration or the alteration of any substance by the intentional addition of a component not originally part of that substance; usually used to imply that the substance is debased as a result.

To Save A King

On October 25, 2018, my friend Dr. Shilpa Penhayade came across a tiny bundle of feathers. A security guard had saved the resplendant Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher from stray dogs and crows at the District Hospital at Mapusa, Goa...

King Of The Hill!

The Amazing Story of Jawai’s Leopards.

Black Beauty

On A Search For Blackbuck In Bihar’s Grasslands

The Curious Mind

The urge to look towards the sky stems from an intrinsic human curiosity emanating out of not just scientific but also existential queries

Uncharted Territory

The next step involves sending humans to space and responding to the changing dynamics of global space business

Not To Visit, But To Inhabit

The human civilisation is going to relocate for the first time, a part of it at least

Whose Space Is It?

Governments have been exploring space for a while, but the influx of private players has altered the rules of the game. What are the laws that govern space today?

Burden Of Relief

The Union government’s decision to exempt captive power plants from meeting renewable energy targets will upset India’s climate change mitigation plan

Orbits Of Debris

Space waste threatens the existence of all satellites

Hostile Space

A six-month stay in space induces physiological changes to the human body. A trip to Mars will be thrice that duration. Can astronauts survive the ordeal?

Arrival Of The Disruptors

A handful of billionaires are working hard to make space colonisation a reality. In the process they are reviving a sector that had stagnated for decades. Is this democratisation of space or a high-tech coup?

Are We There Yet?

Habitation designs and technologies are almost ready to make life possible in outer space

Are We Aliens?

There is a theory that says life could have intergalactic origin

Zero Budget Natural Farming

How to fix our broken food system and stop its collateral damage on Nature

The Quest For The Spirit Duck

Dew drops descending from the sky-high canopies of giant Hollong trees refreshed us as we moved deeper into the rainforests of Dehing-Patkai.

‘Bullet' Train Project

Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR)

Tribal Tigers

How a shamanic community has saved tigers in the Dibang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh

The Sanctuary Interview - Meet Gobind Sagar Bhardwaj

An Indian Forest Service Offi cer, a tiger protector, a Great Indian Bustard protector, wildlife photographer par excellence, and a man whose heart beats for wild nature. Born in 1968, in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, he grew up in a tiny village called Narwana in Himachal Pradesh. He graduated in Biosciences from the Government College, Dharamsala and obtained a Masters in Botany and an M.Phil. from the Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla. The University of Rajasthan, Jaipur awarded him a Doctorate in 2011 for his thesis ‘Plant Resource Utilisation by Avianfauna in Sitamata Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India’. Clearly an academic, he has known Bittu Sahgal for over two decades and speaks to him about his love of photography and passion for wild nature.

The Giving Tree

“There’s a lump in my throat. Seven years ago when I stood here it was a pristine, wild, enigmatic forest. I camped for three nights on the river, tree-drenched mountains fencing us in and the constant chatter of the water keeping us company.

The ERDS Foundation

In early March 2019, Radheshyam Bishnoi, community volunteer of ERDS Foundation, formerly known as the Ecology and Rural Development Society, a non-profit organisation working in western Rajasthan, and his birding mentor Dr. Divesh Saini (Physician and supporter of ERDS Foundation) were birding in Pokhran in Jaisalmer district.