Wild uncultivated edible plants of India
Part 13 (......after part 12) Trevesia palmata (Roxb. ex Lindl.) Vis. Family: Araliaceae This Ginseng family plant is easily identified by its nice and distinguishable palmate...
Glimpses Of Nature And Culture
Fishing with a living fishing tool Perhaps we have heard or come across traditional fishing with various nets, sticks, stupefiers, or a wide range of...
Towards “Net Zero” (Zero Carbon) Healthcare
Rahul Mukherjee Heartlands Hospital (part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust) and Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham E-mail: rahul.mukherjee@uhb.nhs.uk The National Health Service (NHS), as the largest employer in Britain, is responsible for around 4% of the nation’s...
Unity in diversity – the curious case of Ethnomedicine
Rajasri Ray CEiBa Email: rajasri@ceibatrust.org The skyrocketing popularity of the word “Traditional Medicine” or medicinal herbs in recent time has taken many of us surprised, thanks...
Wild uncultivated edible plants of India
Spilanthes acmella (L.) L. Family: Compositae As popularly known as the toothache plant, this commonly available herb belongs to the sunflower family. The plant is...
Glimpses Of Nature And Culture
Survival in the Anthropocene The sufferings of the biosphere through human activity is an unavoidable mark for the Anthropocene. We quantify pollution and extinction, define...
Pride and Preyjudice : Conservation issues affecting the Asiatic Lion
Prisha Tiwari Department of Biology Shivranjani Kumari Department of Psychology Ashoka University, Haryana, India E-mail: prisha.tiwari_ug22@ashoka.edu.in shivranjani.kumari_ug22@ashoka.edu.in Stories from the Past:...
In search of a practicable organic livelihood
Sumit Sarkar Environmental activist, Bankura, West Bengal Email: indsumitsarkar@yahoo.in It’s now almost a decade ago while I was attending a seminar in relation to organic farming. There I came...