Rajkamal Goswami

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Conservation scientist, studies biodiversity, conservation and ecology of human-forest interfaces with an interdisciplinary twist. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE)

Forests India North East Meghalaya Conflicts Jaintia Hills Waste Disposal Sacred Groves Drought coronavirus pandemic

Economy

COVID-19, economic stagnancy and dignity of work

Bondage in Indian cities is far from gainful employment with dignity. The urban fear is many informal workers may have ‘reverse migrated&…

Wildlife & Biodiversity

Why should only jumbos matter?

The outrage over the death of a pregnant elephant in kerala highlights our skewed notion of biodiversity and its conservation

Forests

Fire in the mountains

Researchers studying bird communities in Kumaon Himalayas detail the devastating effects of Uttarakhand's forest fires on wildlife and …

How clean are our forests?

The inordinate focus on cities and towns seems to suggest that garbage doesn’t occur elsewhere. But that is hardly so

Assam and its notion of nationhood

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Invasion of tiger reserve

Are religious pilgrimages only about faith and religion?

Hills of despair and hope

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Mined to death: an elegy for the rivers of Meghalaya

The rivers in the Jaintia Hills have turned deep blue; mines and cement factories have killed all fish and aquatic life in them

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