Roadside Greenery
by Proloy Bagchi   
In History lessons in the primary school we were told about the penchant of the Afghan King Sher Shah Suri for improving the then-existing administrative set-up. An ethnic Afghan, born in Hissar in Punjab, he took control of the Mogul Empire in 1540 and established the Sur Dynasty after overrunning Bengal. Being far away from the centre of action which used to be Delhi, he was obsessed with better communication with it.
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Climate has Played Truant in the Past Too!
by V. K. Joshi (Bijji) 
A journey through the pages of the earth’s history sometimes unfolds most interesting things. These pages are not accessible to a layman. One needs to read and decipher the cryptic pages with the help of several tools. Amongst such tools, phytoliths are slowly gaining popularity amongst the palaeontologists and paleoclimate experts. Some of interesting and intriguing questions, like, what our ancestors ate or when they exactly became cultivators are some of the information derived from the study of phytoliths. Read On 

Fair Deal for Asiatic Lions
by Proloy Bagchi   
Hanging fire for decades the Supreme Court resolved the issue the other day. The issue was about relocation of a few Asiatic lions from their only home in the Gir National Park to the already-prepared Kuno Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh (MP). It was stonewalled by Gujarat for all these years claiming, as it did, the lions as its own. Read On 

Subduction Earthquakes or Tandava!
by V. K. Joshi (Bijji)   
In the Hindu mythology, Lord Shiva is believed to be the creator and the destroyer both. His Rudra Tandav is supposed to be a dance of destruction. So powerful was the Lord, it is said, that he could annihilate not only the Earth, but the universe and even the death itself. The stories of Lord Shiva rocking the earth could not be a mere figment of imagination. Read On