Rajat Ghai

Thus spake Said ...

Guarding against those vicious jaws

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

Book review: Historic Temples in Pakistan by Reema Abbasi and Madiha Aijaz

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

The nature of divinity

Chicken dose and don'ts

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

The saga of the Uttarakhand deluge retold

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

Bharat's Anglophobia

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

Kartick Satyanarayan, the man who made an elephant weep with joy

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

Christendom and the world fail Iraqi Christians

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

The rogue bear

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

Just how much is too much?

Class: Mammalia Indica

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

Is Katra Sadatganj UP's version of Clanton, Mississippi?

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

Jitendra, Omar and an avoidable controversy

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

Chickens coming home to roost for Red China?

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

Lessons from Wild Europe

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

Holy Mary!

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

Boko Haram: A blot on humanity

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

The office of Prime Minister: A largely north Indian upper-caste, Hindu affair

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

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