(April 28, 2021) Read Part 1 here.(Interviewed by Sourabha Rao) 4. Is there a concrete concept called ‘style’? If there really is one, what is it that a photographer needs to strive for? Should that be a drive-force for one to set out with a camera at all?This topic of ‘style’ often comes up in the world of art. Photography is no different. Is there a ‘style’? I think so, since every one of us have differently coded genes. Being overly conscious about it ensures we are lo...

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(April 26, 2021) Article by Gokul GK Arunachal Pradesh’s Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writer, Mamang Dai, wrote in her poem, Floating Island:The sloping mountain is trying to reach mestretching down into the water.Dear one, don’t go away.Rest, rest on my shoulder.Deep in my centre a woman is asleeppressing her cheek on my pillowvivid with dreams.The birds of summer are nesting in her breast.Arunachal. Land of dawn-lit mountains, green valleys and blue rivers, birds and orchids, and love and war...

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(April 21, 2021) Article by Gokul G. K. Freshwater Turtles On 31 January 2021, a team of Railway Protection Force (RPF) seized three bags containing 100 alive Indian flapshell turtles from platform No. 3 of Koderma Railway Station in Koderma district of Jharkhand. This turtle is a protected species under Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Two weeks later, on 13 February, at least 12 flapshell turtles were found dead in Sarsai Nawar Wetland of Etawah district. These consec...

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(April 19, 2021) (Interviewed by Sourabha Rao)Some conversations trigger a renewed quest for the light of knowing. Without clinging to the need for answers, one learns the humility to comprehend the questions in the first place. It is precisely this thirst for understanding the world and our own place in it that Ganesh H. Shankar‘s words and work evoke in us. I call him, ‘a scientist of thought’.An ardent practitioner of an art-form that tries to capture life in all its details between light an...

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(April 12, 2021) Recently, we had the pleasure of interviewing the Rtd. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) & Chief Wildlife Warden of Kerala Forest Department, Mr. Surendra Kumar.(Interviewed by Sourabha Rao)In his recollections are his early days, his experience of being an IFS officer in Kerala, the challenges wildlife has been facing in the state and the measures that the forest department is taking to curb them, a work of short fiction he has authored, his assertion that conservation NGOs ...

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