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An indefinite petrol strike caught my eye at the nearby petrol pump and the very next minute I hear someone saying “fill the tank.”

I have never before seen a long and I mean a really long queue outside a petrol pump. From high-end to low end cars and from jazzy and to simple two wheelers, almost every type of vehicle present. All of them had just one raison d'être at that point of time “Dude, just fill the tank.”

In the wait for a precious need of the hour, I looked around trying to grasp the… Continue

(Lepcha Settlement at Ray Mindu village, East Sikkim, below Fhambong Lho Wildlife Scantuary. The village is underdevelopment for ecotourism.)

Sikkim is often called the biodiversity ‘Hotspot’ of the lower Eastern Himalayas. And rightly so - the region is bestowed with abundan… Continue

Countdown 2010 – Save Biodiversity


Nearly all countries of the world came together for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 and promised to ‘achieve by 2010 a significant reduction in the current rate of loss of biological diversity’. Countdown 2010 and its partners assist governments worldwide in moving closer to this 2010 biodiversity target. The main objectives of this initiative are at all levels are:

- make the case for biodiversity and its conservation;
- call upon decisi… Continue

Over the past century the human ingenuity has brought about radical changes in the way we lead our lives. With the technological development, the demands and desires of billions living on the planet, it was believed in the 1950’s that by the turn of the millennium, the natural resources would drastically deplete. But the millennium changed and the demands increased and we are still fortunate to use the resources of this planet. But now, the same questions are arising in this decade, and unfortun… Continue