Rajat Ghai

Author Directory | Rajat Ghai

Assistant Editor at Down To Earth. His main interests include history, wildlife, culture, cuisine and indigenous peoples

India Wildlife & Biodiversity Environment Climate Change Governance Gujarat Asia Water Africa Science & Technology

Climate Change

"Snow leopard habitat may be lost due to climate change"

The snow leopard is facing a huge threat from climate change and a hostile human population in Pakistan. Muhammad Ali Nawaz, an authority on the …

Wildlife & Biodiversity

‘Wild tigers could be back in Kazakhstan by 2026’

Igor Chestin is the head of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s Russia chapter. He is in Delhi to attend the third Asia Ministerial …

Wildlife & Biodiversity

‘Russia will do its best to protect the Amur tiger’

Sergey Aramilev is the Deputy Director of the Vladivostok-based Amur Tiger Centre. He is in Delhi to attend the third Asia Ministerial Conference …

Governance

‘Today, people love seeing reality in movies’

Nila Madhab Panda spoke to Down To Earth about his film and doing ‘realistic’ cinema

Science & Technology

'Jahangir's scientific contributions have been ignored by mainstream academia'

Ebba Koch is an art and architectural historian. Her area of specialisation is the period of Mughal rule in the Indian Subcontinent (1526-1857). …

Governance

Two new Bollywood films and a message

Contemporary Hindi films get real, hitch-hike to success

Wildlife & Biodiversity

‘The future of the Indian Wolf is hanging by a slender thread’

Karnataka-based documentary filmmakers, Senani Hegde and Krupakar, whose work on wild dogs has been feted in the past, have recently, won another …

Energy

‘Indian civilian nuclear reactors should be opened to public scrutiny’

On March 11, authorities at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in southern Gujarat closed down one of its units as a precautionary measure …

Governance

Historic litigant

How was land for Rashtrapati Bhavan and the parliament building acquired? Who were its original inhabitants?

Governance

‘Europe has double standards when it comes to the Roma’

For centuries, the Roma (colloquially known as ‘Gypsies’) have been discriminated against in Europe, to which they migrated to from …

Wildlife & Biodiversity

Back of Australia

The continent has an unlikely superlative: it has the world's largest feral camel population. RAJAT GHAI traces their origin from British India …

Climate Change

'Indigenous communities are key stakeholders in the climate change talks'

Ekai Nabenyo, 24, is the founder and chair of the Lorengelup Community Development Initiative, Kenya. An ethnic Turkana tribesman, he talks to …

Economy

A sultan’s silken dreams

Let us, for a moment, forget about Tipu Sultan’s alleged iconoclasm and remember him for a remarkable personal achievement—laying the …

Sea that isn't

In just 50 years, the Aral Sea - once the fourth largest inland water body - has turned into world's newest desert

Governance

'I could not have found a better story'

Ketan Mehta, director of ‘Manjhi-the Mountain Man’, speaks to Down To Earth about why he made the film

Lifestyle

Rite of passage

At its heart, Killa is essentially a coming-of-age movie shot beautifully

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