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Necessary Journeys: Gorkhaland or Sumoland?
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Friday, November 18, 2011. On my way out and down from Sikkim, via Darjeeling, stuck in this jam, I wondered aloud, until the demand for Gorkhaland is met, why not name the hill-city Sumoland, at least three Gorkha taxi driver agreed heartily. Posted by SHAILENDRA YASHWANT. Location: Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A beginners guide to what transpired at the Paris climate summit. What did you bloody greenies do? What is this Paris climate deal? Majuli - Lost Island.
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Necessary Journeys: Requiem for an Ape – Sumatra’s vanishing orangutans.
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Saturday, September 1, 2012. Requiem for an Ape – Sumatra’s vanishing orangutans. Bohrok, Gunung Leuser National Park. 35000 according to conservative estimates. The Bohrok center is now in disrepair and the rehabilitation program established in 1970s, primarily to help young animals rescued from pet bazaars and burning forests learn how to adapt to life in the jungle, temporarily discontinued. According to many Indonesian conservationists putting orangutans back in the forest was not as simple as it sou...
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Necessary Journeys: The wettest desert on earth
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012. The wettest desert on earth. Read more on Infochangeindia. Posted by SHAILENDRA YASHWANT. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A beginners guide to what transpired at the Paris climate summit. What did you bloody greenies do? What is this Paris climate deal? After 21 years of haggling and delays, governments of the world coll. Brahmaputra and the temples of doom. The strange obsession of Jadav Payeng. Majuli - Lost Island. Saving Sikkim's Shangri La. The wettest desert on earth.
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Necessary Journeys: November 2012
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Saturday, November 24, 2012. Majuli - Lost Island. Neo-Vaishanite monks practicing drums at a Satra. On October 28 this year, from a plane between Guwahati and Jorhat, I witnessed firsthand how the Brahmaputra river, reddish-brown and silt-laden, braided with hundreds of sandbars and islands, snakes its way through a web of channels , creating a terrain of constantly mutating boundaries. Continue reading on Infochangeindia.org. Posted by SHAILENDRA YASHWANT. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The wettest desert...
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Necessary Journeys: Bullfrog rave @ Dahanu !
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Sunday, June 10, 2012. Bullfrog rave @ Dahanu! Yesterday's pre-monsoon shower brought out these Bull frogs from their subterranean homes where they were hibernating for almost four months. Croaking raucously they began their lake side mating rituals with such fervor I was worried that the Mumbai Police would raid our farm for running an illicit rave. Posted by SHAILENDRA YASHWANT. Location: Dahanu, Maharashtra, India. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What did you bloody greenies do? Alang - Death zone.
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Necessary Journeys: The strange Obsession of Jadav Payeng
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013. The strange Obsession of Jadav Payeng. Jadav Payeng in his forest. In 1979, Jadav Payeng, a.k.a. Mulai, a cowherd, started planting trees on a desolate, barren island formed by the ever-shifting sands of the Brahmaputra river, near his island home of Aruna sapori in the Jorhat district of Assam. Read the whole story online Sanctuary Asia. Posted by SHAILENDRA YASHWANT. August 3, 2015 at 12:50 AM. Dear Mr. Shailendra. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Majuli - Lost Island.
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Necessary Journeys: August 2013
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Monday, August 12, 2013. Brahmaputra and the temples of doom. The boat lurched dangerously. A sudden change in the water current slapped us around for a few minutes, and the river began rising rapidly, unexpectedly. There were no clouds in the sky, no signs of an impending storm, no radio reports of rains upcountry. In fact the weather forecast promised a clear and sunny day in the entire region when we began our journey upriver in the morning. Continue reading on Infochangeindia. Majuli - Lost Island.
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Necessary Journeys: The Gods must be Angry
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012. The Gods must be Angry. The Lepchas, the indigenous people of Sikkim, are shaken up. Literally. Many consider the earthquake of September 2011 and the destruction caused at sites of the Teesta dam project in their homeland, Dzongu, in north Sikkim, as a sign of the wrath of the gods for disturbing the sacred ecology of this unique Himalayan landscape. Read more on Infochange India. Posted by SHAILENDRA YASHWANT. Location: Sikkim, India. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Meltd...
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Necessary Journeys: Brahmaputra and the temples of doom
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Monday, August 12, 2013. Brahmaputra and the temples of doom. The boat lurched dangerously. A sudden change in the water current slapped us around for a few minutes, and the river began rising rapidly, unexpectedly. There were no clouds in the sky, no signs of an impending storm, no radio reports of rains upcountry. In fact the weather forecast promised a clear and sunny day in the entire region when we began our journey upriver in the morning. Continue reading on Infochangeindia. Majuli - Lost Island.