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Western Ghats

Killing the keeper

It does not matter which discredited industrialist’s interest Avni’s death was meant to serve but by allowing a humungous14,000 square kilometers of green cover to be shorn off over the last 30 years, India has clearly demonstrated the status of its commitment to the natural environment.

A tryst with nature

It was a two-hour flight from Delhi to Mumbai and from there again a two-hour flight to Madurai and still…

The strange and wondrous creature

Frogs have soft bodies, and they leap about. They have the remarkable ability to expel foreign objects with their bladders engulfing the intrusions to help get rid of them. No other animal has ever used their bladder to eliminate foreign objects embedded in their bodies.