Agricultural Land in India Diminishing
by Vasant G. Gandhi 
Since the mid 90s, Indian and foreign companies, governments, trusts, and others have been rapidly building businesses—colleges, factories, flats, offices, plants—on land purchased primarily from poor farmers.  Consequently, the farmland in India is vanishing at an alarming rate. Read On 

Development & Environment: Always at Loggerheads! 
by V. K. Joshi (Bijji) 
There seems to be a permanent strife between the development and environment. Is it because the environment came first and development much later! No, because the word development is relative and environment has been there much before the two legged creature called man came in to existence. Before us many animals ruled the planet be it trilobites, ammonites or dinosaurs. But it is for sure that none of them was a human and none had a brain like that of a human. Read On 
 
Knowing the Rattle
by Fatima Chowdhury 
In the still sands of Nevada’s Mojave Desert the distinct sound of the rattle echoes as an eerie warning to those crossing path with the well known rattlesnake. One of the most fascinating species inhabiting most of the Americas, the rattlesnake is counted as one of the most venomous snakes from the pit viper family. There are approximately 32 identified species of which the United States accounts for 17 of them along with several subspecies. Read On

Birds Killing through Blind Beliefs
by Prof. Madhav Sarkunde 
The journey of human life is as mysterious and checkered as his existence. He has seen many phases of human development from Neanderthal to today’s highly developed denizen of civil society. Modern inventions show that there are some creatures in the universe, which came into existence before human being; however, none of them achieved as dazzling development as man did. Read On