Rajat Ghai

In an effort to manage human-crocodile conflict, a university in Australia has formed a database to document attacks by crocodile species worldwide, including in India

Reema Abbasi and Madiha Aijaz's magnificent photo-essay profiles the core of Pakistan's millennia-old Hindu heritage - its temples - and makes a strong case for keeping pluralism alive in the 'Fortres

With reports that poultry is causing antibiotic resistance in humans, how wise is it to eat chicken? The author questions experts and poultry farmers on the issue

More than a year after the Uttarakhand floods, journalist Hridayesh Joshi seeks some answers

The controversy over the UPSC exam papers is the latest attack on English in India by its Bhasha opponents

Satyanarayan's NGO Wildlife SOS has been rescuing and rehabilitating bears, leopards, elephants and tigers

The ISIS' rise has sounded the death-knell for a community that has been suffering for the past 1,400 years

I was a Russophile and Putin admirer till yesterday. No more

Naturalist Vivek Menon's latest book on India's mammals, exhaustive and thoroughly researched, will appeal as much to the lay reader as to the expert

There are many eerie (and savage) parallels between the tiny Badaun village and John Grisham's fictional southern US town

Jitendra Singh's comments on Article 370 were entirely uncalled for, as was Omar Abdullah's reaction to them

Beijing's dangerous double-game of suppressing Muslims at home and courting them abroad, might be unravelling as Uyghur militants step up attacks in Xinjiang

India can learn a lot from the Continent on conservation of wild species and spaces

An American explorer claims he has found the wreck of Christopher Columbus' flagship carrack 500 years after it sank off northern Hispaniola

With its latest acts of terror, the Nigerian Islamist group has galloped past Al Qaeda, Afghan & Pakistani Taliban in terms of depravity and brazenness

Independent India's prime ministers have mostly been members of entrenched social elites, or numerically larger populations