A dumb primate ?

In the Cincinnati zoo, an innocent gorilla was murdered from

primordial dread. It is not clear which of us is a dumb 

primate. It is chilling that the four-year-old Isaiah, whose 

mishap last week became world news, carries the name of a 

Hebrew prophet.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-article-by-aseem-shrivastava-on-the-death-of-a-gorilla-in-cincinnati-zoo-a-dumb-primate/article8697397.ece

Four Environmental Photo-Essays

I share with you four marvellous environmental photo-essays. The first is my co-author Ashish Kothari's work on Ladakh. 

http://www.frontline.in/environment/despair-and-hope-on-the-roof-of-the-world/article7550148.ece

The second is a moving portrait of the fauna of Kanha National Park. 

http://www.frontline.in/environment/a-new-life-in-kanha/article7489569.ece

The third is actually a set of 30 best images for the 'Environmental Photographer of the Year'. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/06/27/environmental-photographer_n_7677434.html

And the last is a shocking set of aerial images showing the industrial devastation of the earth from the air.

http://www.bernhardlang.de/Website/AV_Coal_Mine_ALL.html

Cowardice thrives in the age of barbarism !

Yesterday (Sunday), The Hindu carried my piece on the murder of Cecil the Lion by a cosmetic dentist from Minnesota:

http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/aseem-shrivastava-on-cecil-the-lions-murder/article7512452.ece

A friend remarked the other day that to a grizzly bear, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Jew, a Catholic, a Protestant would all taste the same - just like chicken tastes roughly the same to us humans, regardless of whether it has been reared on this continent or some other - and this is even more true in the age of the global stupid!

And while we are still speaking about just how much maturer than humans animals are proving to be, please take 3 more minutes to look at this cutting satire too. It is brilliantly titled More-on: The Lion Dentist

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernie-shine/moreon-the-lion-dentist_b_7918754.html?utm_source=change_org&utm_medium=petition&ir=India&adsSiteOverride=in