Nicobar Nightmare — The Lede Proposed infrastructure project in Great Nicobar Island a mega follyPankaj SekhsariaIt puts the pristine island, its priceless biodiversity, and indigene populations as well as the huge investment itself in danger.
TRIBUTE Zubair Ahmed: A guiding light for the Andaman Islands and its peoplePankaj SekhsariaZubair worked with his mentor Govind Raju and published the news magazine “The Light of Andamans”.
Fort full of lifeTEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS: PANKAJ SEKHSARIAMENTION the word fort and the images that come to mind are all too common elaborate histories; kings, queens and palace intrigues; battle-worn warrio
Fort full of lifeTEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS: PANKAJ SEKHSARIAMENTION the word fort and the images that come to mind are all too common elaborate histories; kings, queens and palace intrigues; battle-worn warrio
Politics of sciencePANKAJ SEKHSARIAGEERT SOMSEN is a historian of science with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He currently directs
Tilt and turmoil in the AndamansTEXT AND PICTURES BY PANKAJ SEKHSARIAThe earthquake and tsunami of December 2004 caused huge changes in the coastal systems of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Picking up the threadsTEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS: PANKAJ SEKHSARIALife in Little Andaman, eight months after it was struck by the tsunami.
The spirit of the OngesPANKAJ SEKHSARIALITTLE ANDAMAN, the southern most island in the Andaman group, is clothed in some of the finest tropical evergreen rainforests. It has magnificent cre
Outsiders in their own forestsText and Photographs: PANKAJ SEKHSARIAThe process of the marginalisation of the indigenous Jarawa community continues unabated in the Andaman islands.
Andamans' agonyPANKAJ SEKHSARIAAS the crow flies, Great Nicobar, the southern-most island in the Andaman and Nicobar group, is only about 150 km from Aceh in Sumatra, the epicentre
To save an archipelagoPANKAJ SEKHSARIAThe Supreme Court issues landmark orders to ensure the preservation of the threatened rainforests and environment of the fragile Andaman and Nicobar I
A new phase of censorship creep in India A proposal to amend the IT Rules 2021 and the ban on a BBC documentary are part of a larger trend of Internet censorship, growing since 2014.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.