India, Nov. 8 -- Check dams, including the Ramsar wetland of Sukhna lake, have a shelf life due to the silt load deposited in the monsoons from the fragile foothills. At the Siswan dam in Punjab, a de... Read More
India, Nov. 1 -- The cellphone is the most insidious of intrusions, its distractive apps in no mean measure the cause of dystopian social relations. Its annoying, insistent buzz can be likened to a ho... Read More
India, Oct. 24 -- Under the opaque, gently-rippled waters of the Sukhna lake, lurk treasures of biodiversity. Six new species of fish have been documented at the Sukhna by the department of zoology, P... Read More
India, Oct. 17 -- Domestic buffaloes can more than just threaten leopards by closing ranks, as narrated in these columns two Sundays ago. They can cause bodily harm, if the leopard does not exercise d... Read More
India, Oct. 10 -- Arun Khanna was engrossed in photographing nest construction by baya weaver in the Saketri grasslands. "Then I spotted an interesting object on a babul branch: an elongated, blackish... Read More
India, Oct. 3 -- For all their fearsome reputation, long, drooping whiskers and blood-curdling snarls, leopards invariably choose discretion as the better part of wild valour if the challenger is bigg... Read More
India, Sept. 26 -- For the unjaundiced eye, the joining of male rat snakes (non-venomous) in a combat 'dance' amid lush monsoon grasses constitutes an epitome of natural splendour. Though frequently ... Read More
India, Sept. 12 -- A reel posted on social media a week ago went viral. It was speedily picked up by tricity news outlets, including the mushrooming web-based channels so visible on platforms such as ... Read More
India, Sept. 5 -- Prior to the advent of intrusive CCTV, herpetologists would rely on survivors' first-hand accounts of snakes climbing into beds at night, especially the highly venomous, hiss-less, l... Read More
India, Aug. 29 -- Fascinating are the tales of devout followers. The eastern cattle egret (Ardea coromanda), also known in local parlance as the "badami bagla", follows large, grass-eating animals. It... Read More