Daily Archives: June 20, 2012


Can Facebook save the Indian Tigers?

SAPTARISHI Saigal’s week is a demanding one. The stockbroker with Aditya Birla Money Ltd., from jabalpur in Madhya Pardesh, spends Monday to Friday tracking the market’s highs and lows. Come Saturday morning, the 29-year-old drives two-and-a-half hours to get to Bandhavgarh National Park, spends hours with villagers, and depleting natural reserves with forest officials. Of […]

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British Legacy in Stone

CHRISTIAN cemeteries in India, a legacy of the British empire, bear testimony to what John Donne a 16th century metaphysical poet once described ‘death’ as the greatest leveler in his masterpiece Death, Be Not Proud. At these cemeteries, tactically raised in this part of the country, sleep side by side brave generals, resolute sergeants and […]