Recently, the Prime Minister convened a meeting of the National Board of Wildlife, the apex body which reviews all government policy for endangered fauna. Critical issues were to be discussed : a dam, which will wipe out the last habitat of the snow leopard, species that are on the verge...

First a confession. I have read about climate change. I know what causes global warming. But as Al Gore reminds us -it's an inconvenient truth, which we all want to ignore. That's until I visited the Sunderbans- where the waters are rising so fast that it's eating up islands at...