Vaidya on Nagendra, 'Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future'
What are the challenges to establishing an urban environmental commons?
H-net Water / January 2018 / Environment
Writer based out of Bangalore, India and Southern California.
What are the challenges to establishing an urban environmental commons?
H-net Water / January 2018 / Environment
Most of the world’s remaining tigers live in tiny, guarded fragments, each of which is precarious on its own. Even in the absence of major threats such as poaching, isolation can leave animals at serious risk.
The Deccan Herald / October 2017 / Environment
Exploring India's new cosmopolitan realities through fiction.
LA Review of Books / August 2017 / Book Reviews
When does it make sense to categorize a plant or a person by its origins?
Orion Magazine / March 2017 / Environment
Exploring the new discipline of ethnoelephantology.
Current Conservation / November 2016 / Environment
As the Challakere kavals are turned into a strategic research complex, hard questions remain about whom these grasslands belong to – and what they really are.
The Wire / October 2016 / Environment
A snapshot of a growing field of research in India
IndiaBioScience / May 2016 / Science & Technology
How do we make populations resilient in the face of natural disaster, and how can we best pick up the pieces after disaster strikes?
Dissent Magazine / April 2016 / Environment
Ulsoor Lake is one of the last strongholds in a water-starved city whose hundreds of old reservoirs have largely been drained to be built upon or reduced to dumping grounds in the last 40 years.
The Wire / March 2016 / Environment
A new collaborative initiative will bring stem cell research in India and Japan to bear on clinical studies of brain and blood disorders.
IndiaBioScience / January 2016 / Science & Technology
Overview of the two week UN Climate Change Conference in Paris.
The Wire / December 2015 / Environment
Day twelve of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) at Le Bourget in Paris, France.
The Wire / December 2015 / Environment
Day eleven of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) at Le Bourget in Paris, France.
The Wire / December 2015 / Environment
Day ten of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) at Le Bourget in Paris, France.
The Wire / December 2015 / Environment
Day nine of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) at Le Bourget in Paris, France.
The Wire / December 2015 / Environment
Day eight of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) at Le Bourget in Paris, France.
The Wire / December 2015 / Environment
Days six & seven of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) at Le Bourget in Paris, France.
The Wire / December 2015 / Environment
Day five of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) at Le Bourget in Paris, France.
The Wire / December 2015 / Environment
Day four of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) at Le Bourget in Paris, France.
The Wire / December 2015 / Environment
Day three of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) at Le Bourget in Paris, France.
The Wire / December 2015 / Environment
Day two of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) at Le Bourget in Paris, France.
The Wire / December 2015 / Environment
Article from first day at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) at Le Bourget in Paris, France.
The Wire / December 2015 / Environment
Study reveals potential genetic target for future drug therapy.
IndiaBioScience / December 2015 / Science & Technology
Thoughts on experimental evolution, problem-solving and how to pursue science with passion.
IndiaBioScience / November 2015 / Science & Technology
Across the world, regions at high elevations have been warming at an accelerated pace. What does this mean for the future of Himalayan forests, grasslands and glaciers?
IndiaBioScience / October 2015 / Environment
Predation pressure pushes bushcrickets to evolve new mating strategies
IndiaBioscience / September 2015 / Science & Technology
For millennia, lives across South Asia have beat to the monsoon’s largely predictable rhythm. What would happen if that rhythm changed course?
The Wire / September 2015 / Environment
Review of Amitav Ghosh's Flood of Fire
LA Review of Books / August 2015 / Book Reviews
Repurposed World War II-era buildings give a glimpse into India’s scientific history.
IndiaBioscience / August 2015 / Science & Society
New academy, with a focus on science education and outreach, hopes to build a network of young Indian scientists.
IndiaBioscience / July 2015 / Science & Society
New research has used extracts from green tea leaves and vajradanti roots to create nanoparticle-based biomedical delivery vehicles that could one day be used to isolate and excise cancerous tissue.
IndiaBioscience / August 2015 / Science & Technology
Songbirds in the Western Ghats driven to high altitude “sky island” refuges by ancient climate upheavals now face further genetic isolation, as human action continues to partition the habitats of birds with nowhere else to go.
IndiaBioscience / July 2015 / Environment
Interview with Anuradha Lohia, molecular parasitologist and Vice Chancellor of Presidency University, Kolkata.
IndiaBioscience / July 2015 / Science & Technology
A story of Argentine Tango, from Buenos Aires to Bangalore.
Forbes Life India / June 2015 / Culture
Bangalore's system of lakes and canals took centuries to build, but their downfall was only a few decades in the making.
The Wire / May 2015 / Environment
Survey by researchers produces a list of the public’s top concerns about the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems in India
IndiaBioscience / June 2015 / Environment
Review of of Nguyan Nhat Anh’s Ticket to Childhood
LA Review of Books / May 2015 / Book Reviews
Screening of prostate cancer patients for chromosomal aberrations may help focus future research and treatment
IndiaBioscience / May 2015 / Science & Technology
Report of a public talk at NIAS, Bangalore on the upcoming Paris climate negotiations by Jean-Marc Séré-Charlet, Minister Counsellor at the French Embassy in India
IndiaBioscience / April 2015 / Environment
News piece with updates on the status of fellowship hike protests by research scholars across India
IndiaBioscience / April 2015 / Science & Society
Initial report of bodystorming workshop starting in Bangalore, bringing scientific researchers and dancers into collaboration with each other.
IndiaBioscience / April 2015 / Science & Society
Charitable causes have increasingly begun to enlist celebrity support, a phenomenon that Daniel Brockington correlates with the increased dependence of NGOs on corporate interests.
Current Conservation / March 2015 / Environment
Article on the strange juxtaposition of American nostalgia marketing with the ever-changing face of Bangalore
BOOM: A Journal of California / January 2015 / Urban Spaces
Review of Walden: or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.
Public Books / November 2014 / Book Reviews
News piece on the findings of mathematical models developed in part by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science that examine the net effect of forests on global climate.
IndiaBioscience / December 2014 / Environment
Overview of week-long COACh workshop for women scientists held at NIAS, Bangalore
IndiaBioscience / November 2014 / Science & Society
News piece on recent research from the Indian Institute of Science analysing the distribution of the invasive plant Lantana camara in Mudumalai, India.
IndiaBioscience / October 2014 / Environment
Faculty profile of computational biologist Dr. Mukund Thattai for NCBS news.
NCBS News / October 2014 / Science & Technology
Article on the role of creativity in the “two cultures” of science and art.
IndiaBioscience / August 2014 / Science & Society
Review of Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India by Anand Pandian and M. P. Mariappan.
LA Review of Books / August 2014 / Book Reviews
Article on the seventy-year history of Select Bookstore in Bangalore, India.
The Caravan / September 2012 / Urban Spaces
Article on the city government-sponsored murals that have emerged on public walls in Bangalore.
The Caravan / September 2011 / Urban Spaces
Article under "personal histories," on the experience of bridging the cultural and linguistic gap as an Indian-American ecologist in rural South India.
Tehelka / May 2009 / Culture
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