“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshipping.” -Hubert Reeves Nature can be defined as the natural, physical or material universe. It has roots in the Latin word&n...
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports keep getting grimmer. We need to restrict global warming to 1.5 degrees centigrade. The Paris Agreement hoped to restrict warming to 2 degrees centigrade. But till 2020, the world has not achieved its Paris Commitment. The frequency of e...
The economic situation in India has been precarious and on a persistent slide. The lockdown to combat the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the economy further downhill. It has also compelled the government to come up with several special packages to revitalize the economy, the latest one being the stimu...
On 24 March 24, when the lockdown was announced, I immediately gave my phone number across the country for all animal volunteers to use if they needed help. I thought that perhaps a few organisations would get in touch. Not so. Thousands of calls started coming in from people who needed passes...
Soil pollution relates to chemical degradation of soil that includes acidification, declining fertility, changes in the pH level, salinisation, and chemical toxicity. For India, maximumsoil contamination occurs in agricultural land, wastelands, and in urban areas. Rural agricultural secto...
My granddaughter, Anasuyaa, 5, is a vegetarian and a very healthy eater. She loves vegetables, specially broccoli. She doesn’t like maida in any form, including cakes. She likes the idea of ice cream, but will rarely go beyond a few licks. My son went through a phase of offering her lollipops, whi...
Children use role play to deal with complicated situations in order to understand them better. Young children act out real or imagined situations, not just as themselves, but also as other people or characters such as friends, family members, characters in story books or superheroes – they are exp...
Nature has a reason for everything. A creature's environment plays the main part in deciding how its eyes develop and function. For instance, starfish have five eyes at the end of each arm, but they can only see shade and light and huge masses of land. They don’t need to see any more than looming ...
Netflix on your mind tonight?Indeed, that happens to be quite a wonted way to de-stress yourself especially after a gruelling day at work. In fact, a significant proportion of people across the world, whether they live alone or not, prefer to kick back and catch up on the TV series or movies of thei...
Some of our judges are now beginning to understand what animal cruelty does to a nation and act on it. Acting Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, Honourable Justice Rajeev Sharma, has written some of the finest judgements on animal cruelty. These should be taught to all judges who ...