Breed basket

Even when it comes to dogs, we still haven't got over the colonial hangover. We import breeds and give them English names. Rajat Ghai speaks to S …

"I spent three years in bed, giving company to death"

K Pradipkumar Singh was diagnosed with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in 2000. After suffering acute stigma for many years, Singh bounced …

“तटीय भाषाएं चुका रही हैं परिवर्तन की कीमत”

भाषाविद गणेश देवी ने ऐसे अनूठे भाषा सर्वेक्षण का नया खं�…

‘The Persian Gulf is a sensitive issue in Iran’

Amir Masoud Aghababaeian is an Iranian film-maker, originally from Isfahan and based in Tehran. He is the director of ‘Mermaid’, a …

Spread of glanders shows neglect of veterinary science in India

Glanders, a bacterial, zoonotic disease that affects equines and is a potential biological weapon, has been breaking out regularly across India …

"Pre-Independence India did better conservation"

M K Ranjitsinh has been involved in conservation for more than 40 years. Rajat Ghai speaks to him about his latest book, A Life with Wildlife: …

"Dialects are the avant-garde teams exploring new semantic possibilities"

Linguist GANESH DEVY has just published a new volume of a unique language survey that is based on geography and people's vernacular claims. He …

'We could discover new bird species in the eastern Himalayas'

Trevor Price has been studying birds in India since 1972, investigating breeding biology and bird distributions, especially in the Himalayas. He …

Primitive classification

The Gonds, like other indigenous communities, still do not have sovereign political rights

The catch in conservation

Ullas Karanth has many lessons to offer to make wildlife management in India more scientific

'We have to use the Paris Agreement for a strong agenda forward'

Sweden will pass a law next year to become carbon-neutral by 2045. Eva Svedling, the State Secretary to the Minister for International …

‘Ancient and Medieval maps were very inaccurate’

Briton Susan Gole is a collector and historian of maps, especially those of India. She has published various books on the subject. She is also …

`The Australian government is amending laws to push Adani's coal mine project'

The Adani Group's US$ 16.5 billion Carmichael coal mine project in Queensland is mired in a controversy as it not only threatens the Great …

Should conservation be privatised?

Since the late 1960s, many African countries, including Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, have adopted a new approach to conservation.…

The revenge of the boar

The wild pig can be a danger to humans, as some very special ones in northern Iraq found recently

'Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson’s accuracy of description is very much in question'

Bruce D. Patterson is the MacArthur Curator of Mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH) in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is also an …

Wolf snapped in the Sundarbans for the first time

It is a stray individual that has dispersed nearly 350 km from the nearest wolf population in Purulia, say experts

`Religion is not doing enough to help wildlife'

George Schaller is one of the first scientists to study and rediscover several rare and charismatic species. These include the mountain gorillas …

‘Plant dyes should be used on an industrial level only if the plants' cultivation is propagated’

Vadodara-based artist Taniya Vaidya recently exhibited her collection of paintings at New Delhi’s India International Centre. She mainly …

A ‘kick’ass jibe

Could Akhilesh Yadav’s ‘gadha’ comment increase awareness about wild equid conservation in India?

How cow became the mother of demigods

The current political discourse on cow protection disregards the history of beef eating in India

`Indian Ocean has been the central theatre of human existence'

Economist, environmentalist, urban theorist, Sanjeev Sanyal wears many hats. He has written four bestselling books on Indian political history …

Lock & hold

The jallikattu bull row in Tamil Nadu provokes the law v culture debate

`Indian cuisine is rediscovering itself'

Ethnic Indian food is reinventing itself, says Colleen Taylor Sen, considered to be one of the leading historians on Indian and South Asian food. …

Why certain parts of India churn out the best sportspersons

Haryana, with just two per cent of India's population, accounts for 20 per cent of its Olympic contingent