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Arati Kumar-Rao
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A new book shows how misguided decisions have pushed endangered Indian landscapes to destruction
An excerpt from ‘Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink’, by Arati Kumar-Rao.
Arati Kumar-Rao
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Photo essay: A peek into the world of solitary bees who neither live in hives nor make honey
There are over 20,000 species of bees in the world. Most of them are solitary bees.
Arati Kumar-Rao
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Gangetic dolphin's habitat lies in the path of a proposed waterway from Uttar Pradesh to West Bengal
The dredging of rivers for the construction of national waterway 1 impacts dolphins and the sound of machines impedes the nearly blind aquatic animal's hearing.
Arati Kumar-Rao
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‘Animal’ review: Hard to stomach – but equally hard to ignore
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An Indian artist who helped decolonise Christian art has been relegated to the margins in death
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How Uttar Pradesh’s halal ban has plunged the processed food industry into chaos
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From a writer’s journals: How the legendary writer Vladimir Nabokov inspired Amitava Kumar’s fiction
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‘Sam Bahadur’ review: A little bit of everything and nothing about any one thing in particular
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The dolphin, the fisherman and the holy river Ganga
There’s the Ganga, the fishermen who catch no fish and the dolphins that cannot be found in India’s only dolphin sanctuary.
Arati Kumar-Rao
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The Paris climate change agreement was a day late and a dollar short
How the Paris accord lost its way between preamble and operative text.
Arati Kumar-Rao