Living

Where are the Birds Going?

Shubhangi Swarup

One Northern Shovelor went to Bihar instead of the Arctic. The patterns of bird migration in India are going awry

The Revolution’s New Leaf

Hartosh Singh Bal

With a little help from the Tata Group, man has managed to replicate photosynthesis in a lab. In the future, you could well have an artificial leaf powering a house in an Indian village

Living with Lions

Haima Deshpande

Maldharis, the last human inhabitants of Gir forest, are justifiably proud of their coexistence with big cats. But these tribals may not be around in the forest for much longer

On the Wild Meat Trail

Shilpi Sharma

Two documentary filmmakers go into the interiors of the Northeast for five years to understand an eerie silence of the forests. They find hope in local tribals defying tradition to go green

The End of Education

Sanjay Srivastava

Welcome to Kota, the site of a terrifying social experiment. It’s a coaching culture that gets students into IIT, but leaves them uneducated

The Difficulty of Being a Green Spouse

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Sneaking wrappers in without his knowledge, missing him desperately during pregnancy because he wouldn’t take a flight, the carbon guilt of owning a Scooty, and other survival tales of an environmentalist’s wife

Haplogroup D

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M168 > YAP > M174

Haplogroup R1A1

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M168 > P143 > M89 > L15 > M9 > M45 > M207 > M173 > SRY10831.2 > M17 (Set of markers that together identify the haplogroup, the changes in the Y-chromosome they indicate occurred in the order listed here)

Haplogroup L

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M168 > P143 > M89 > M9 > M20

Haplogroup H

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M168 > P143 > M89 > M69 (the set of markers that together identify the haplogroup, the changes in the Y-chromosome they indicate occurred in the order listed here)