Dillenia indica L
Dillenia indica L Family : Dilleniaceae It is the tree fondly called as Elephant apple and is famous for its beautiful delicate flower and tangy fruits. The dark green...
Boehmeria glomerulifera Miq.
Part 14 (......after part 13) Boehmeria glomerulifera Miq. Family: Urticaceae Boehmeria glomerulifera, commonly known as Malabar tree nettle, is a widely distributed shrub across the Himalayan...
A scented trail to remember
Misty morning, rays of the sun, chirping of birds, lively greenery, and an isolated unaddressed path, so you are in a forest trail. Be it...
An app of their own
Honeybees offer us sweet memories of blooming landscape dotted with flowers under a sunny sky, the humming in a desolate afternoon, the aggressive defense against...
The magic of muslin has come back! Really?
Muslin, once the coveted fabric of kings and queens or social elites, Muslin that fiddled with the imagination of poets and travelers has come back...
The cool honey hunters – on the walls of the rock
Our tryst with honey is not a recent one but is rooted in deep time, it has been an important food source for early Homo....
Miyazaki and Environmentalism: Rediscovering My Neighbour Totoro
Avik Ray CEiBa Email: avikray@ceibatrust.org Let me begin this essay with a personal anecdote, my very first encounter with Hayao Miyazaki’s magical world of animation....
Editorial – Volume 5 Issue 2
Welcome to the 2nd issue of the CEiBa Newsletter in the year 2022. This year is remarkable in many ways, the 50th anniversary of the...
Kunga – the early bioengineered animals
Early humans had no dearth of creativity. And surprisingly, it was not only limited to creating physical objects, from finest artifacts, pottery, sharpest spears or...
La la la lays – Pepsico potato chips Saga
The giant potato chips maker PepsiCo found itself in deep and dense soup in December 2021 when it lost its right to the special variety...