The jungles of the terai are turning yellow and carpeting the floor with golden leaves. I received some beautiful pictures from Mohd Umar, forester of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve today. People who cannot go to jungles at present, can see the beauty of the Terai forests in these pictures. The jungles change swiftly and sometimes even a gap of a fortnight is enough to miss out…

This story is about the first time that I landed on the pristine and beautiful Andaman and Nicobar Islands many years ago and actually saw and met the indigenous people of various tribes and even visited their settlements. Subsequently, my fascination for these forgotten lands of India grew and providentially, in every naval assignment in my career, I have had the occasion to visit these…

It was a Category 3 cyclone and headed right towards the coast. From the time it had formed in the middle of the ocean, it was being tracked and its path was heading straight towards the mountainous coastline on which I happened to be present. I was tracking it’s movements through the naval channels and open media a little worried about my isolated detachment a…

The 15th of February marks the date of the martyrdom of Shri Sanjay Singh, an Indian Forest Service officer, at the hands of nefarious Maoist elements and the mining mafia in the Rehal forests of Rohtas district, Western Bihar. Singh’s remarkable legacy has become an inspiration to generations of Green Soldiers, not only to those who have been working in the Vindhya-Kaimur Range of Uttar…