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Vivek Menon

Vivek Menon is executive director and CEO, Wildlife Trust of India

Giant Pandas at Dujiangyan Conservation and Research Centre in Chengdu, China
Wildlife
Eats Shoots but Not Leaves

The Giant Panda’s thumb and other wonders of evolution

18 July 2018
An Austen’s Brown Hornbill in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
Wildlife
Bringing up Baby

The unique parental role of the male hornbill

16 May 2018
The Elephant Parade in Mumbai
Wildlife
Behemoths at the Gate

Our big intelligent social nomads and their right to safe passage

04 April 2018
Santa’s Deer
Wildlife
Santa’s Deer

Only a step away from being endangered

21 December 2017
Leafcutter Ants at work at the Cocobolo Nature Reserve, Panama
Wildlife
Size Is a Deception

Learning from the social life of Leafcutter Ants

25 October 2017
The Pygmy Blue Whale found in the Indian Ocean is about 50 feet long and weighs 50 tonnes
Wildlife
My Encounter with a Blue Whale

It turns to present its flank towards the boat and a fine spray mists the horizon

13 September 2017
The Melanesian megapode is a dark fowl with a red cap
Wildlife
Wild Chicken and the Happy Isles of Oceania

In search of the elusive flightless megapode

19 July 2017
A tiger is captured after being tranquilised at Sonitpur, Assam
Wildlife
Catching a Tiger by Its Tail

The future of the once fearsome predator lies in the hands of a few brave men

19 April 2017
The northern screamer, a Latin American goose, at Barbacoas Lake in Colombia
Columns
The Sound of Silence

Can the magic realism of birds bring peace to Colombia?

01 March 2017
A young male hoolock gibbon swings through the trees at Berjan Wildlife Sanctuary
Wildlife
Call of the Apes

Indian primates are in urgent need of conservationist attention

04 January 2017

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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