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Shekha Jheel Bird Sanctuary is India’s 99 Ramsar site

Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday announced the designation of Shekha Jheel Bird Sanctuary in Aligarh as a Ramsar site, taking India’s total to 99 and the state’s tally to 12.

Earth Day through redemptive metaphors

Rabindranath Tagore owes his conscience, consciousness and disillusionment to none but mother earth in the poem ‘Prithibi’, written on 16 October 1935. Around 1910, Tagore is writing the Santiniketan series of essays, and there, too, he underlines how he sees no distinction between his own self and the larger nonhuman around.