Neha Sinha
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How the man-elephant conflict is exacerbated by abuse and violence
An excerpt from ‘Wild and Wilful’ by Neha Sinha. → Read More
Wildlife In All Its Glory, While We Were In Lockdown
City life in 2020 was going to be all about the urban space, locked in our houses, with no travel-escapes in sight. As the pandemic spread, I would look at a Semal tree that I could see from my house. The tree had lush, scarlet blossoms, and all manner of birds would feast on them, writes Neha Sinha. → Read More
India’s Wildlife Is Battling Disease Too
Even as we struggle with a pandemic, disease is wiping out flagship species, within flagship projects, warns Neha Sinha. → Read More
A Walk Through The Monsoon Forests
Walk through a wilderness in the monsoon, and your eyes will be saturated with colour, your senses glutted with a rich diversity of things to see, smell, and hear. Different layers of the forest canopy seem to become one breathing, dripping entity, all thirsty for a bit more life-giving water and a slice of the sunny sky, writes Neha Sinha. → Read More
In Tiger Pugmarks, A Blueprint For Conservation
Surmounting large roads, tropical storms, vehicular traffic, houses, pits, fences, and fields, tigers have claimed new territory. On July 29, international tiger day, the Government of India released the full report on tiger status in India. We have close to 3,000 tigers, which is most of the world’s wild tiger population. → Read More
Let A Moth Wing Into Your Life
Everyone knows butterflies – they are usually the first insect we learn to draw and colour. Though moths are related to butterflies, they are lesser-known. This could be because most moths are nocturnal, and inactive during the day. You may have an unmoving moth in your room, blending in perfectly with the curtain, unlike a giddy, psychedelic butterfly that is hardly ever still. → Read More
Don’t Let ‘I’ Be Removed From Environment
The Environment Impact Assessment Notification is being changed, and the new draft gives sops to projects, without corresponding safeguards for the environment. It is perhaps the closeness people felt to nature during the lockdown that has led them to voice their concerns in hundreds. Actors, citizens, stand-up comedians, and students have raised their voices against the new draft EIA norms. → Read More
World Environment Day: Let’s Not Stop At One Elephant
It is heartening that within a pandemic of human suffering, people can find the mind space to think of an elephant: to learn of her, to mourn her, and to name her after she has passed. But though the opportunity to help elephants may start with one individual animal, it shouldn’t stop there. All elephants need our help. Let’s step up to it, writes Neha Sinha. → Read More
Covid-19: An ‘Earth Day’ Like No Other
What has the pandemic taught us, and can we learn from it, asks Neha Sinha. → Read More
Coronavirus: Find Yourself In Social Isolation? Turn To Trees.
If you make time to watch a native flowering tree, you may find yourself part of a world full of beauty and surprise. → Read More
Spring In The Time Of Coronavirus
In our altered world, Frankenstein diseases are likely to become the norm, writes Neha Sinha. → Read More
Finding The Will To Conserve Wildlife Endemic To India
De-politicising the environment could mean looking at the area through geography, and not just geopolitics, writes Neha Sinha. → Read More
Why The Lion King Should Matter To India
A fictional movie set in Africa has an unlikely connection to India. That of lions. Because The Lion King is about saving and cherishing lions, this movie should have special relevance to India: The world’s last remaining Asiatic lion population is here, in Gir, Gujarat. Unfortunately, the movie The Lion King echoes how we look at lions in real life—loving them to their deaths, writes Neha Sinha. → Read More
Conserving water: Since every drop matters
As we head towards an impending water-crisis, here are a few the things we can all do to save and store the blue gold. → Read More
World Earth Day: Rebuild Nature’s Cathedral
The destruction of nature’s many-faceted cathedrals, which is our natural heritage—wetlands, coastlines, forests, and rivers—is everywhere. A little starfish, a newly named spider from Aarey, and a ghost-like heron stand in front of massive projects. Can we adjust our lens to see their beauty; see what is unseen? Can we cherish, restore and rebuild these cathedrals, asks Neha Sinha. → Read More
Review: Self-Aware, but Not Sentimental, Conversations With the Unglamorous Wild
The most striking thing about 'My Husband and Other Animals 2' is the strong and unapologetic woman at its centre → Read More
Four Stories That Captured India's Environmental Zeitgeist in 2018
2018 was the year when environmental protest filled the streets, even as the government stayed unmoved and dark predictions by biologists came true. Here are four big moments from the last 12 months that captured this spirit. → Read More
Avni's Killing Leaves Blood on Maharashtra Govt's Hands
A hunt at night instead of day. No veterinarian in the hunting party. A hunter without the requisite permissions. A narrative of genetic gifts, power and bloodlust. The tigress's death was ugly in many ways. → Read More
Durga Puja is proof our rivers are not fit to carry faith
The fact that most of our Gods are supposed to depart through the conduit of flowing rivers is laced with irony. → Read More
In the Wake of Kerala Floods, the Jury Is Still out on the Dams' Guilt
While we are still struggling to understand the environmental impact of dams, it is ironic that approvals for the Lakhwar dam on the Yamuna actually pre-date the Environmental Impact Notification Act itself. → Read More