Of Flesh Trade, Slavery & Human Trafficking
India is home to half the world’s modern slaves; 18 million people trafficked as slaves – sell skin, sex and children.
Of Dolphins, Elephants and Intoxicants: When Animals Get High
From alcohol to opium and even magic mushrooms, the animal world chases a high in much the same way that humans do.
Lessons From Verghese Kurien’s Life
How did Verghese Kurien steer India to emerge as the world’s largest producer of milk, employing 50 million farmers?
Why Ground Water Recharging Is Crucial
Recharging groundwater is crucial. But there is no data to support policy formulation, making it an ad-hoc exercise.
Mankind’s Worst Enemy: Drug-Resistant Malaria
Malaria has killed more people than any other disease. The rise of drug-resistant strains could undo the gains made against it.
A Brief Hour of Beauty
Clint was one of the greatest painters to come out of Kerala. He was only seven when he died.
The Multicultural Mithai & The Great Indian Sweet Tooth
The great Indian Mithai – Rasgulla, Gulab Jamun and Barfi are all products of globalisation and cultural assimilation.
Why Saving The Olive Ridley Turtle Requires a Global Effort
From ghost nets to overfishing, and even missiles, the Olive Ridley Turtle faces a plethora of threats in the global ocean.
How Biddu From Bangalore Popularized Disco With Kung Fu Fighting
With ‘Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting’, Biddu Appaiah heralded the dawn of disco music.
The Saga of Rock and Raga
When Rock strums the Raga, the ‘east’ meets the ‘west’ and the fusion manifests in an evolutionary musical zeitgeist.
Can Reskilling Missions Defuse India’s Demographic Timebomb?
India needs to create hundreds of millions of jobs by 2050, besides replacing the many that will go out of fashion.
India’s National Wildlife Action Plan for 2017-2031
[ARTICLE] 15 years have passed since the last National Wildlife Action. In the earlier plans of 1978 and 2002, India’s wildlife policy underwent incremental changes, but climate change had yet to find a mention. This changed on October 2, 2017, when the Union Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) Harsh Vardhan released the latest National Wildlife Action Plan (NWAP) for 2017-2031 in New Delhi. The latest plan, whose full details are yet to be published on the MoEF website, includes seven conservation actions and 11 projects relating to climate change for the first time. The minister released the new plan at the inauguration of the Global Wildlife Programme, a global partnership by the World Bank that aims to tackle the threat of illegal wildlife poaching. The third edition of the GWP, hosted in Delhi, saw 19 Asian nations meet on the issues of poaching such as that of tigers and rhinoceroses. Illegal poaching persists in India, but the country has made headway in places like Kaziranga – albeit through brutal means (poachers are shot on sight, and vigilantism is not uncommon). At the programme, the Union Minister emphasized the use of modern technology to counter poachers and wildlife crimes. Such measures could include the increased use of Unmanned Aerial Drones to monitor wildlife populations – which have already been deployed by agencies like the National Tiger Conservation Authority and the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun. The Kaziranga National Park has already made headway in using drones to track illegal poachers. -30- Copyright©Madras Courier, All Rights Reserved. You may share using our article tools. Please don’t cut articles from madrascourier.com and redistribute by email, post to the web, mobile phone or social media.Please send in your feed back and comments to editor@madrascourier.com
Why The ‘Dalit Jews’ of Andhra Made A Comedy Film
In a village in Andhra, entrepreneurial Dalit Jews have embarked on making a comedy film in the hope of visiting Israel.
The Pondicherry Shark On the Most Wanted List
The world’s most wanted shark has never killed anyone. But it’s a species on the brink of extinction.
Janaki Ammal And The Chromosome Atlas Of Cultivated Plants
The cytogeneticist Janaki Ammal catalogued India’s plants, and modified Indian sugarcane to make it sweeter.