It had been a long day at work. It was only Tuesday, though it felt like a Friday by when my weekly energy quota is usually almost over. I had spent my day reading an exhaustive report and rewriting a story on coal mining, assessing three other stories (one of which made little or no sense), dealing with a plagiarised story, and preparing the weekly…

During that impromptu stillness, besides feeling the pain and heaviness in my body, I also started feeling the burden of a few old scars and hurt in my heart. 4th August 2017, Noida. While lying on my bed, I was looking up at the ceiling fan and thinking about what I should do for the next forty days. Earlier that day, I had been discharged…

To sharpen the fangs of the mighty fleet of warships and auxiliaries in hunting down submarines, Naval Command Headquarters had ordered Submarine Squadron Headquarters to deploy one submarine for conduct of Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) training to our naval ships which included the mighty aircraft carrier. Our submarine which was returning after a month-long mission was diverted at sea and rerouted to undertake this mission of…

#WildWomenInterviews with Janaki Lenin: Episode 19 Bano Haralu is a journalist and conservationist based in Nagaland. She’s the director of the Nagaland Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation Trust. She played a crucial role in stopping the large-scale hunting of Amur Falcons. In 2010, while doing a bird survey, Bano heard about Amur falcons being caught by the sacksful in October every year. She felt more embarrassed than…