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Should Art Kill Its Muse?

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June 2018

Could art be cruel? Could it kill? The purpose of art, among others, is also the portrayal and appreciation of beauty. How can it then be self-defeating and exterminate the very forms of life that are its muse?

- Rizwan Mithawala

Should Art Kill Its Muse?

Some of the earliest-known works of art depict animals long gone – cave lions, woolly rhinos, mammoths. Immortalised in ochre and charcoal, the profiles of such ancient creatures adorn the shadowed walls of prehistoric caves around the world. Closer home in Madhya Pradesh, the rock shelters of Bhimbetka celebrate gaur, tigers and rhinoceroses. Art has always imitated and venerated life in all its glorious forms.

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Why Children Are Needed To Help Save The World

On my very first day in India, I encountered many marvelous new customs not practiced in the United States, my home country. But the most curious by far involved trees. Here and there, alongside the roaring streets of Mumbai were rings of marigold wreathed around twisting banyan trunks like dried rays of afternoon sunlight…

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2 mins

September 2019

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Who's Who?

Fact: all toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads! Let’s unpack this...

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1 mins

September 2019

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The Sea Raptor

The White-bellied Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster is one of the most common raptors along the Indian coastline. Nevertheless, the sight of this soaring, broad-winged, white and black bird of prey is nothing less than majestic

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2 mins

September 2019

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Sanctuary Asia

Bringing Up Bob Hoots.

While we were visiting a friend’s farm in the village of Yelachetty, near Bandipur Tiger Reserve, we found Spotted Owlets nesting on the tiled roof… and one of the chicks on the kitchen floor!

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2 mins

September 2019

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World Scan

CHINA’S IVORY TOWNAn explosive investigation by the Environmental Investigation Agency has revealed how criminal gangs originating from an obscure town in southern China have come to dominate the smuggling of ivory tusks poached from African elephants.

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3 mins

August 2017

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Sanctuary Asia

Karanpura Must Live

The story of a campaign to save a landscape

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16 mins

August 2017

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Sanctuary Asia

Meet Erik Solheim

Environmental champion, politician, climate and peace negotiator

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6 mins

August 2017

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Sanctuary Asia

Bats in the land of Hornbills

“Bamboo bat!” My eyes gleamed when I heard that and I rushed for the bats, which were hanging in cloth bags.

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6 mins

August 2017

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Sanctuary Asia

Conservation Photography

As a precursor to the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards 2017, a reminder that a ‘picture can save a thousand lives’. Details at www.sanctuaryasia.com.

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1 min

August 2017

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Sanctuary Asia

Stop The Killer Highway Through Corbett

Even as conservationists in Assam try to minimise wild animal roadkills on NH-37, a highway that obstructs the movement of wildlife from the flooded Kaziranga National Park to the safety of the KarbiAnglong hills… across the country, another killer highway has been foisted on us by the state of Uttarakhand.

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2 mins

August 2017

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