It's not a 'donkey'. That's the first lesson you learn if you are going to film the Wild Ass a shy elusive animal a member of the equid or horse family that lives in a magical landscape known as the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. We arrive late afternoon at the Desert Coursers Resort- a little complex with comfortable mud huts. This is where we will be staying over the next few days. The sun is setting by the time we drive in our jeeps into the Rann described as the bleakest, dustiest, and hottest region in India. It stretches for hundreds of square kilometers in the state of Gujarat, from the frontier with Pakistan's Sind Desert, southward to the Little Rann and the Gulf of Kutch. Despite this bleak description, the Rann of Kutch is a haven for wildlife- the little Rann of Kutch was declared as a sanctuary to preserve the Indian wild ass. The wild ass is considered an...

It's a National Park that grabbed world headlines. With the mass wipe out of all its tigers Sariska became a blot in in the history of conservation in India. And two years later the King of the Jungle is back.. In June 2008 the Indian Air Force airlifted two tigers from Ranthambore National Park to be translocated to Sariska. And since then quietly yet determinedly a virtual army of foot soldiers and wildlife scientists are tracking two radio-collared tigers to make sure this time round nothing goes wrong. So far no one has been allowed inside this heavily barricaded park. Operation Big Cat is in full swing. Three hundred men patrol the park- every visitor into the park is frisked and the area where the tigers have been released is cordoned off to make sure the tigers are adjusted to their new home. As the only media team allowed inside to track the tigers on foot - we are able to get witness...

Even the most ardent proponents of industrialism would acknowledge that we are in the midst of an environment crisis. Rates of species extinction are 1000 times more than what they were before human beings dominated the earth. The rate of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is 30 times more than when the Industrial revolution started. Urban India is slowly waking up to this inconvenient truth. The Outlook-CNN-IBN-CSDS "State of Environment in Indian Cities" is an attempt to gauge precisely this- assess the level of awareness, attitudes, perception and concerns of the people about the state of environment in their country The survey- has thrown up some startling results. Indians consider environment to be the Number Two problem beating unemployment, law and order and even corruption. In a similar survey conducted in the UK the British considered environment as Number Five on their list of social problems, which the government should tackle. Indians in the first ever environment poll are clearly...

Is there any connection between saving the tiger and using less electricity? I didn't think so till I visited the land of the dammed! The North East is slated to be the powerhouse of the country. Over 200 mega and medium sized dams are to be built after cutting millions of trees and thousands of acres of forests. The irony only 12 per cent of the power generated from the dams is to be used locally the rest by big cities like Mumbai and Delhi. And I am keen to know how do the people of the North East feel about this. A flight from Delhi to Dibrugarh and then a ferry ride crossing the might Brahmputra into Arunachal Pradesh and I already feel like I have entered a different world. In Roeing town in Dibang valley there seem to be no people on the streets. I walk into a huge hall, which is where everyone is gathered. Its drizzling and I am a...