Day: 18 July 2008

Could the ‘porpoises’ that cruise operators show off in Goa’s Mandovi and Zuari estuaries be Irrawaddy River Dolphins? Acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh thinks so. His argument is compelling… The author Amitav Ghosh in conversation with me, then short-haired and propah. Photo © Rediff.com – All rights reserved.  I met Amitav Ghosh for a…

I posted this on another blog in 2002: In 1999, as an intern training at the editorial office of The Week in Kochi, I came to be known as the Birdman thanks to a feature on Kashmir’s Dal Lake that I had to rewrite. I peppered the piece with pintails,…