migration

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

Bengal’s Descent into Darkness

What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow. If this old saying retains some relevance today, it’s as a way to place the tragedy of the state’s slide in perspective.

Waiting for Godwits

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

They practice ornithology in their backyards—naming little birdies with broken legs and studying the impact of global warming on transcontinental avian migrations

Collateral Damage, You Say?

Paromita Vohra

What the inexorable march towards the creation of a global village is leaving in its wake.

My Migrant Soul

Open

A look at the benighted fate of migrant labour who fall so easily for the lure of a better paying foreign job.

Exile Extended

Shivam Vij

Nineteen years after Kashmiri Pandits were pushed out, they yearn to return. But the young have moved on, refusing to give up the allure of life beyond the Valley