Beasts in my Belfry

India bashing in the western media: is India in need of a major public relations exercise?

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:30:32 +0530

It's that time of the year again. Yes, the end of the year, but the start of a another summit on climate change. This is my third year at the

Arctic: an intensive care unit for Planet Earth

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 28 May 2011 11:33:46 +0530

May 27, 2011 The day was full of much action. It was snowing in the morning as we headed out with the scientists from the Indian research station Himadri.

On the road to the Arctic

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:07:33 +0530

The first signs that this journey is going to be full of a lot of adventure? We miss our connections from the quaint airport of Helsinki to Oslo. Its not

Jaitapur debate: A victim of shadowboxing

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:06:46 +0530

On the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster the Indian government announced it will remain committed to its ambitious plans to build a nuclear power plant at Jaitapur. The

It's Cha Cha Cha in Cancun

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:28:49 +0530

As Environment Ministers from different countries fly into Cancun, the final round of talks has now started. And its like the world is sitting on one long merry-go-round ride that

Why Rahul shouldn't have gone to Niyamgiri

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:26:47 +0530

Kalahandi, once known for its starvation deaths, is today the epicentre of the environment vs development debate. For the last seven years a small tribal community has managed to take

Mangroves can't vote

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:14:15 +0530

Pushing for news stories in a mainstream news channel or newspaper can have its challenges.The green cause is often seen as expendable. And why blame the media. For most of

Biologist denied visa : Should media report this?

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:29:40 +0530

This week we did a story on Faiyaz Khudsar. Faiyaz is a wildlife biologist who has been working on reviving the Yamuna Biodiversity Park a flagship project of the Delhi

Wanted! Better green education for MNCs

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:32:10 +0530

The Bhopal Gas tragedy verdict and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be 25 years apart but they have much in common. They continue to symbolise the

Wanted! Better green education for MNCs

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:32:10 +0530

The Bhopal Gas tragedy verdict and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be 25 years apart but they have much in common. They continue to symbolise the

Tiger graveyards of Ranthambore

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:12:14 +0530

Away from the glitzy media campaigns that are running in our big cities to save the tiger, at Ground Zero it's a competition between man and animal or sometimes -

Reporting on climate change, taking sides

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:28:06 +0530

As hectic talks get underway on day 10 of the climate change negotiations, mediapersons from hundreds of news channels are here in Denmark. How do these many media organizations report

From Copenhagen: Chaos and cold cloud over climate talks

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:41:43 +0530

It's been three days now in this cold cold country and the only way to describe the COP15 Copenhagen Summit is ABSOLUTE CHAOS! Whether its the negotiations, or the organisational

The heat is on!

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:16:25 +0530

Could the first signs of global warming be creeping in on the Himalayas? As the countdown to Copenhagen begins, the real story of global warming is not about ice

Can Jairam Ramesh tackle the bull by its horns?

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:41:33 +0530

Winds of change are sweeping across the dusty corridors of the once quiet Ministry of Environment and Forests. For ten years this Ministry has been with the DMK - but

At Melting Point

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:05:59 +0530

Six months from now world leaders will sit in on one of the most decisive meetings on the environment. After Kyoto this is the world summit which can make of

Always a blind spot

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:02:00 +0530

I look at the rhetoric surrounding Elections 2009 and wonder - has any political party promised to improve the state of the environment for you and me? Or thought about

Monkeys in happy land

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:49:00 +0530

Environmentalists are known to be the harbingers of bad news. This time it's good news! Having returned from the Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary in this great country of ours inhabited by

A Journey through the Rann

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:30:05 +0530

It's not a 'donkey'. That's the first lesson you learn if you are going to film the Wild Ass a shy elusive animal a member of the equid or horse

24 hours with the Sariska tigers

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:31:38 +0530

It's a National Park that grabbed world headlines. With the mass wipe out of all its tigers Sariska became a blot in in the history of conservation in India. And

Has Indian environmentalism come of age?

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:20:20 +0530

Even the most ardent proponents of industrialism would acknowledge that we are in the midst of an environment crisis. Rates of species extinction are 1000 times more than what they

The land of the dammed!

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:38:04 +0530

Is there any connection between saving the tiger and using less electricity? I didn't think so till I visited the land of the dammed! The North East is slated to

Killer disease wipes out ghariyals

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:41:41 +0530

There's a mysterious disease stalking the gharial (the Indian crocodile). Even as I write this, dead bodies of the gharial are being dragged out from the river Chambal. Females, males

Burning Too Bright - And The Banality of Environment Reporting

editor@ibnlive.com — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:51:27 +0530

Recently, the Prime Minister convened a meeting of the National Board of Wildlife, the apex body which reviews all government policy for endangered fauna. Critical issues were to be discussed

Rising Waters-Migrating People

editor@ibnlive.com — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:18:14 +0530

First a confession. I have read about climate change. I know what causes global warming. But as Al Gore reminds us -it's an inconvenient truth, which we all want to

Bridge over troubled waters

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:09:14 +0530

'You should be thankful to us- its only because of us that anyone is talking about the environment or the fishermen. Otherwise who is interested? The Ram Sethu is about

On the uranium trail in Meghalaya's forests

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:14:35 +0530
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George Bush finalise an agreement for civil nuclear cooperation far away in a tiny corner in India- the source of nuclear energy has

On the uranium trail in Meghalaya's forests

editor@ibnlive.com — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:14:35 +0530
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George Bush finalise an agreement for civil nuclear cooperation far away in a tiny corner in India- the source of nuclear energy has

One tree cut Five Indians dead

editor@ibnlive.com — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:45:35 +0530
Local residents in Uganda's Mabira forest are up in arms against their government. And all Indians based in Uganda. It must be the first time that a green issue sparked

Chasing crocodiles in dacoit land

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:46:36 +0530
It's the land of the dacoits. This is Chambal- a landscape made famous by Bollywood film Sholay. My mission is different. I am here to investigate why the Indian gharial

A River Gone Dead

editor@ibnlive.com — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:36:24 +0530
The time when you are driving back from having shot your story is a tough one. You are left with images imprinted in your mind which are disturbing - and

From monkey bites to sound bites

editor@ibnlive.com — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:40:48 +0530
My academic training was in the wildlife sciences. I was at Jersey Zoo off the coast of England set up by the famous author and wildlife conservationist Gerald Durrell. In