Anand Sankar

The successful effort to combat cyclone Phailin threatens to put disaster mitigation, and a fundamental overhaul of how disaster management in India is structured, on the back-burner

Exciting times may be ahead for the much neglected north-east region with several turnkey infrastructure projects coming to fruition, opening opportunities to closer links with Myanmar for business

Guy Lawson's book is not a conspiracy theory; it is an honest account of a person, and an event that affected real money

The uproar over 'dams' following the Uttarakhand disaster is ill-informed & potentially counter-productive

The suspension of the Char Dham Yatra this year and its cancellation the next will be a huge blow to Uttarakhand's unorganised sector

A memoir by one of India's leading lepidopterists makes a strong case for studying butterflies and moths to research the impact of climate change

An agency reporter discovers the real meaning of the resource curse in the Congo

At last, here's a meticulous if somewhat biased biography of Rajinikanth that traces the story of the man and the phenomenon he became