Dehradun, Aug. 17 -- With Chimpanzees in the Congo

All Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' was written in 1667 and is considered as probably the greatest poem in English literature. It is a biblical story of man falling prey to temptation and the subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Well, in real life we did have a Garden of Eden, and it covered 70% of the planet till as recently as the 1950s. This Eden on Earth were our Forests and Jungles with the myriad mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, plants, fungi and algae calling it home. Now over half of this paradise has been lost in the last 7 decades and today only around 30% of the Earth's land surface has forest cover. I...