PLANTING HOPE: M S Swaminathan is still sowing seeds of agricultural reform, almost fifty years after the Green Revolution M S Swaminathan always strived to make life easier for farmers. Today, they are killing themselves. Ketan Tanna meets an embarrassed revolutionary It’s 4 am. The rest of Kerala is still sleeping in the comfort of […]
BLIMEY! SNAKES AREN’T SLIMY
OF THE SAME FEATHER The Bombay Natural History Society is one of Aisa’s largest naturalist groups In this weekly series, we cover unusual groups. This week, Ketan Tanna profiles the naturalist tribe which thinks creepy crawlies are more evolved than human beings Call them nuts, freaks or plain barking. It doesn’t affect them. By now […]
FOR THE SOUND OF SILENCE
COUNTRY MUSIC: These doctors have been fighting the menace of noise pollution since 84 Ketan Tanna profiles doctors who battle noise Once, on the eve of Ganesh Visarjan, a retired scientist put up a banner asking, “Is god deaf?†One Diwali night, gynecologist Prabhakar Rao called the Juhu police station to complain about the […]