Publication list

Finally worked on the layout of the publication list ~


2026

  • Schools in India today, Teacher Plus blog, Blog (Education)

  • Caste in the classroom, Teacher Plus, Blog (Education, Books)

  • Tryst with words, Sahyadri Newsletter, Blog (Education)

  • A book on rails that often derails, (The social life of Indian trains: A journey by Amitava Kumar), Deccan Herald, Blog (Book Review, Trains)

2025

  • Striking a balance in the world of children, Deccan Herald, Blog (Education)

  • Is craft centered education the way to go? (Gender and craftwork in rural society: The role of education by Nidhi Gaur), Teacher Plus, Blog (Book Review, Education)

  • Making economics accessible (Poor economics for kids by Esther Duflo and Cheyenne Olivier), Teacher Plus, Blog (Book Review)

  • A slide down the mountains (Up the Mountains of India by Mala Kumar), Teacher Plus, Blog (Book Review) 

  • A book that nudges you to ask questions (My story, my voice: Sita and Helen by Shailee), Teacher Plus, Blog (Book Review)

  • How to teach poetry, The Hindu, Blog (Education, Poetry)

2024

  • Learning languages, The Hindu, Blog (Education)

  • Touch me not (Adi and Anku by Aditi Gupta and Tuhin Paul), (co-authors: Arti Pandey, Anshumalika Rai), Teacher Plus, Blog (Book Review, Education, Gender)

  • When kids take part in taking stock of books (co-author: Anshumalika Rai), Deccan Herald, Blog, (Education)

  • Language conundrum, The Hindu, Blog, (Education)

  • Learning languages together, Deccan Herald, Blog,(Education)

  • About the children, for the children - Pratham Books, (co-author: Anshumalika Rai), Teacher Plus, Blog (Book Review)

  • Books and Us (co-author: Anshumalika Rai), Teacher Plus, Blog, (Education)

  • Our journey with Pratham Books (co-author: Anshumalika Rai), Teacher Plus, Blog (Book Review) 

2023

  • Surrounded by openness, Teacher Plus, Blog (Education) 

  • Schools and other institutions, Teacher Plus, Blog (Education)

  • A taboo in our schools, Deccan Herald, Blog (Education, Caste)

  • The Fount of Imagination (Inked in India – Fountain Pens and a Story of Make and Unmake by Bibek Debroy with Sovan Roy), Deccan Herald, Blog, (Book Review)

  • Moving Beyond Comfort Zones, (co-authors: Arti Pandey, Anshumalika Rai), Teacher Plus, Blog (Education, Gender, Caste)

2022

  • Review of Between Heaven & Earth — Writings on the Indian Hills: Call of the mountains (Between Heaven and Earth – Writings on the Indian Hills by Ruskin Bond and Bulbul Sharma), The Hindu, Blog (Book Review, Travel)

  • Campus novel based in Banaras Hindu University (Banaras Talkies by Satya Vyas, translated by Himadri Agarwal), Purple Pencil Project, Blog (Book Review, Banaras) 

  • Jaunpur and the magic of Sharqi architecture, Deccan Herald, Blog, (Travel)

  • How campus visits can help students (co-author: Sanjay Dwivedi), The Hindu, Blog (Education)

  • Books in the time of COVID (co-author: Anshumalika Rai), Teacher Plus, Blog (Education, Books) 

2021

  • Beginning the morning at school with poetry (co-author: Anshumalika Rai), Deccan Herald, Blog (Education, Poetry) 

  • Book fairs as educational spaces (co-author: Anshumalika Rai), Deccan Herald, Blog (Education, Books)

  • Reassembling the assembly, Teacher Plus, Blog (Education)

  • The Endearing presence of the Pakad Trees, Deccan Herald, Blog (Trees)

  • Into the Wild (Big Cat Tales – Vintage encounters and stories by The Civil Junglees Collective), The Hindu, Blog (Book Review, Wildlife Conservation)

  • Mundeshvari temple: History in every stone, The Hindu, Blog (Travel)

  • What are the lesser known monuments of India? (A saint, a folktale and other stories by Rana Safvi), Purple Pencil Project, Blog (Book Review, Travel)

  • Beyond the clichéd north Indian village (Rumble in a village by Luc Leruth & Jean Dreze), Purple Pencil Project, Blog (Book Review) 

  • Notes from under the peepal, The Hindu, Blog (Trees)

  • An encounter with the elusive Gangetic dolphin, The Third Pole, Blog, (Wildlife Conservation)

2020

  • ‘Tis the season for Malaiyo – The cloud like sweet that melts in the mouth, The Hindu, Blog, (Food, Travel)

  • Friends, conversations and a Bookstore in Banaras, Purple Pencil Project, Blog, (Books, Banaras)

  • Breaking the gender barrier: Not as tough as we assume, Deccan Herald, Blog (Education, Gender)

  • Notes from Laat Bhairav, The Hindu, Blog,(Travel, Banaras)

  • Our journey with books (co-author: Anshumalika Rai), Teacher Plus, Blog (Education, Books)

  • Why are we reading less, Raiot, Blog (Books)

  • My friends the trees, Round Glass, Blog, (Trees) 

  • Why talking matters, The Hindu, Blog (Education)

  • Bishwanath Ghosh's Aimless in Banaras unravels city's grim realities, but through hackneyed clichés (Aimless in Banaras: Wanderings in India’s Holiest City by Bishwanath Ghosh), First Post, Blog (Book Review, Travel, Banaras)

  • A question of absence, The Hindu, Blog, (Education)

  • Life beyond barriers, The Hindu, Blog (Education, Travel)

2019

  • Train of thought, The Hindu, Blog (Education, Trains) 

  • Scaling Great Heights, Deccan Herald, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Himachal Pradesh)

  • This heritage resource is a mixed bag (UNESCO World Heritage Sites of India Series), Teacher Plus, Blog (Book Review)

  • Musical offerings in Hanuman’s Court, Sruti, Blog (Music, Banaras)

  • From a teacher’s lens, The Hindu, Blog (Education)

  • Animalia Indica: Sumana Roy curates stories that uphold bygone human-animal bond, dazzle with illustrations (Animalia Indica: The finest animal stories in Indian literature by Sumana Roy), First Post, Blog (Book Review)

  • Traffic jam in Tirthan valley, Deccan Herald, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Himachal Pradesh)

  • Villages in our schools, The Hindu, Blog (Education)

  • Mirrored in words, Teacher Plus, Blog (Education)

  • All effort, no yield, The Hindu, Blog (Education)

  • At Varanasi’s Dhrupad Mela, a celebration of classical music unlike any other in India, First Post, Blog, (Music, Banaras)

  • Kangra’s toy train, The Hindu, Blog, (Travel, Trains, Himachal Pradesh)

  • Schools beyond Textbooks (Not Just Grades – Schools that educate differently by Rajeev Sharma), Teacher Plus, Blog (Book Review, Education)

  • A New Book on Great Himalayan National Park offers compelling insights into the quest to save the region (The Great Himalayan National Park – The Struggle to Save the Western Himalayas by Sanjeeva Pandey and Anthony Gaston), First Post, Blog (Book Review, Wildlife Conservation, Himachal Pradesh)

  • Bring your own tiffin box, The Hindu, India Hikes, Blog (Environment Education, Travel)

  • Cut that call: Ethics and Misuse of Artificial Birdcalls, Round Glass, Blog (Wildlife Conservation)

2018

  • Anybody can teach?, The Hindu, Blog, (Education)

  • Back to the Books, The Hindu, Blog, Publication (Education, Books)

  • In the Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer goes beyond Ganga, Varanasi to explore India’s socio-political landscape (The Twice Born – Life and Death on the Ganges by Aatish Taseer), First Post, Blog (Book Review)

  • Ramnagar Kit Ramleela - How Ramcharitmanas is brought to life at one of the oldest ‘melas’in Varanasi, First Post, Blog (Banaras) 

  • Bridge over the River Ganga, The Hindu, Blog, (Banaras, Trains)

  • The rise and fall of the Emerald Tigers: Raghu Chundawat’s book raises valid concerns, but disappoints (The Rise and Fall of the EMERALD TIGERS: Ten Years of Research in Panna National Park by Raghu Chundawat), First Post, Blog, (Book Review, Wildlife Conservation, Madhya Pradesh)

  • Nature education in schools: Where do we stand?, Teacher Plus, Blog (Environment Education)

  • As Varanasi's ghats come alive with music, the city could stake its claim to being India's cultural capital, First Post, Blog (Banaras, Music)

  • Sparks from a conversation, The Hindu, Vikalp Sangam, Blog (Education)

  • Steed of the Jungle God: Raza Tehsin presents exciting tales from south Rajasthan’s wilderness (Steed of the Jungle God by Raza Tehsin with Arefa Tehsin), First Post, NBT Newsletter,  Blog (Book Review, Rajasthan)

  • Varanasi’s Sankat Mochan Sangeet Samaroh celebrates the city, and the Indian classical music tradition, First Post, Blog (Banaras, Music)

  • Don’t always go by the book, Teacher Plus, Vikalp Sangam, Blog (Education)

  • A week with a bamboo raft, Eclectic North East, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Mizoram)

  • Lessons in the outdoor, The Hindu, Blog (Environment Education)

  • Questions in search of answers (Textbooks for Sustainable Development: A guide to embedding by MGIEP, UNESCO), Teacher Plus, Blog (Book Review, Environment Education)

  • Making history come alive, The Hindu, Blog, (Education)

  • Wild in the backyard, (Wild in the backyard by Arefa Tehsin), iWonder, Blog (Book Review)

2017

  • Plastic is there to stay, onus is on us to change our lifestyles and protect the environment, First Post, Blog (Environment Education)

  • In the lap of nature, high on the mountains, Deccan Herald, Blog, (Travel, Himachal Pradesh)

  • Exploring green patches in urban areas, Deccan Herald, Blog, (Wildlife Conservation)

  • Environment Day: Of tokenism and ironies, The Citizen, Blog (Environment Education)

  • Eighteen tides and a tiger (Eighteen tides and a tiger by Anjana Basu), Goodbooks,  Blog (Book Review, West Bengal)

  • Of the students, by the students, for the students, Vikalp Sangam, Blog (Education)

  • By insisting on using these Latin or scientific names, are we missing the forest for the trees?, First Post, Blog (Environment Education)

  • “I don’t give a damn”: Our motto in public space, The Citizen, Blog (Environment Education)

  • A for alternative, E for education, The Hindu, Vikalp Sangam, Blog (Education)

  • Jashn E Deccan, Sruti, Blog (Music, Hyderabad)

  • How serious are we about the earth?, The Citizen, Blog (Environment Education)

  • Imagining a new world (Talon the falcon by Deepak Dalal), Teacher Plus, April, Blog (Book Review)

  • Reimagining Environment, Teacher Plus, Blog (Environment Education)

  • Livelihoods for Conservation: Some Questions, The Citizen, Blog, (Wildlife Conservation)

  • The wild is in us not them, The Citizen, Blog (Life)

  • Co-creating experiences, Teacher Plus, Blog (Education)

  • The toll of ambiguity in the government’s culling orders, The Wire, Blog (Wildlife Conservation)

  • Educating for a More Sustainable Tomorrow (co-authors: Radha Gopalan, Suresh Jones) The New Leam, Blog (Environment Education)

  • The joy of doing absolutely nothing is simply priceless, The Quint, Blog (Life)

  • Wildlife Conservation's Not For Profits: Shying From The Mirror?, The Citizen, Blog (Wildlife Conservation)

  • Museums as learning spaces, Teacher Plus, Vikalp Sangam, Blog (Education)

2016

  • Dampa: Caught in the midst of all, Deccan Herald, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Mizoram)

  • Is Environment Education in India at odds with its development agenda?, First Post, Blog (Environment Education)

  • Planning to educate, educating to plan (co-authors: Jayanta Pathak, Firoz Ahmed, Bibhuti Lahkar), Education for change, Vikalp Sangam, Blog (Environment Education)

  • Planning to educate, Educating to Plan (co-authors: Jayanta Pathak, Firoz Ahmed, Bibhuti Lahkar), International conference for transforming education for children and youth, Paper presented, Blog (Environment Education)

  • Open House, The Hindu, Vikalp Sangam, Blog (Hyderabad)

  • The debate over the culling of wildlife in India requires more than just sound and fury, SCROLL, Blog (Wildlife Conservation)

  • Where the ‘vermins’ fight for survival..., Deccan Herald, Blog (Wildlife Conservation)

  • Declaring wildlife as vermin – Legalising Hunting?, Conservation India, Blog, (Wildlife Conservation)

  • Human support for biodiversity (co-author: Pankaj Joshi) Deccan Herald, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Gujarat)

  • Will birds come to oil palm plantations?, Frontier Despatch, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Mizoram)

  • Sentient beings or shooting targets?, Sanctuary Asia website, Blog (Wildlife Conservation)

  • Golf the Guzzler, The Hindu,  Blog, (Wildlife Conservation)

  • Time for Action, Deccan Herald, Blog (Wildlife Conservation)

  • Wildlife Human Conflict: Some Questions, Assam Tribune, Blog (Wildlife Conservation)

  • Education for a more sustainable tomorrow (co-authors: Radha Gopalan, Suresh Jones), International conference on Education as a driver for Sustainable Development Goals, Paper presented, Blog (Environment Education)

  • Let us have a meeting, RAIOT, Blog (Life)

  • A year in the hills (Sangla: A valley of strange happenings by Katie Bagli), Teacher Plus, Blog (Book Review, Himachal Pradesh)

2015

  • Walking on the University Campus, Metro India, Blog (Hyderabad)

  • Mountain Musings, Sanctuary Asia, Blog, Publication (Travel, Himachal Pradesh)

  • On a wrong course?, Deccan Herald, Conservation India, Blog (Wildlife Conservation)

  • The Choir that sings out of tune, The Hindu, Blog (Wildlife Conservation)

  • Joining the Dots (co-author: Swati Chaliha), Hornbill, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Nagaland)

  • My thoughts on local landscapes, wildlife conservation and the Dushera mela at Kullu, The Alternative, Blog (Travel, Himachal Pradesh)

  • Quandaries along a journey on wildlife conservation, Down to Earth Blog, The Alternative, Blog (Wildlife Conservation) 

  • Walk in a village – a story, Teacher Plus, Blog (Education, Nagaland)

  • Which way will we walk?: A story from mother’s tales and imaginary hot air balloons (co-authors: Tobias Dorr, Daniela Boos) Vikalp Sangam, WWTC, Blog (Environment Education)

2014

  • “Where does the trash go?”: Encouraging youth to take actions for a better climate, Vikalp Sangam, Blog (Environment Education)

  • “Act if there is no tomorrow.”: Indian Youth on the track of the climate dialogue, Vikalp Sangam, Blog (Environment Education)

  • Mapping boundaries of Community Conserved Areas: Institutional and operational challenges (co-author: Swati Chaliha), IUFRO, Poster presented, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Nagaland)

  • Garo Hills: Gone with the coal?, Hornbill, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Meghalaya)

  • Dampa – Walking in a Tiger Forest, Sanctuary Asia, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Travel, Mizoram)

  • Keeping the questions alive!, Teacher Plus, Blog (Education)

  • Myth, mystery and unexplored beauty (In Focus: Secrets of the Northeast) – Cat condo – Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram, National Geographic Traveller, Blog (Travel, Mizoram)

  • How green is your travel? (co-author: Yaranajit Deka), The Hindu, Blog, (Travel)

  • Marauding oil-palms, SAEVUS, Blog, (Wildlife Conservation, Mizoram)

  • Environmental issues of Northeast forests and wildlife: Expert Recommendation, Lonely Planet: Best Escapes – East and Northeast India, Blog (Travel, Wildlife Conservation)

  • Ferret-badger records from Mizoram, Meghalaya, and Nagaland, India, (co-author: Laltlanhlua Zathang), JBNHS, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland)

  • The Nawabs of Garo Hills (co-author: Yaranajit Deka), Sanctuary Asia, Blog (Travel, Wildlife Conservation, Meghalaya)

2013

  • Conservation Education in Meghalaya and Mizoram: Beyond names and comparisons, Education For Change, Blog (Environment Education, Mizoram, Meghalaya)

  • A world unto itself, Terra Scape, Blog (Travel, Mizoram, Meghalaya)

  • What’s in a name?, SAEVUS, Blog (Environment, Education)

  • A Wild Opportunity, The Hindu, Blog (Environment Education)

  • The Hoolock Gibbon Hoolock hoolock in Saiha Mizoram, India: Historical records, Recent sightings, and Conservation status, JBNHS, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Mizoram)

  • A day with Mara Thyultia Py (MTP) at Chakhang, Newsletter & Journal of The Rhino Foundation for Nature in NE India, Blog (Environment Education, Mizoram)

  • Dikhu Green Zone In 'People for Parks' a report by Bittu Sahgal, Lakshmy Raman, Kritika Kapadia, Mallika Narvekar (co-author: Swati Chaliha), Sanctuary Asia, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Nagaland)

  • Driving down a forested lane: Elephants and other memories of the Garo Hills  in The State of Wildlife in Northeast India: (1996 – 2011) – A Compilation of News from the Protected Area Update), Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Meghalaya)

2012

  • Thoughts from a conservation gathering: SCB Asia 2012, Protected Area Update, Blog (Wildlife Conservation)

  • No toy nor tart, let it live in a lake, Deccan Herald, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Mizoram)

  • Conservation Education: Questions enroute an invigorating journey, Society for Conservation Biology, Talk,  Blog (Environment Education)

  • A Day in the Kuno Wilderness, Sanctuary Asia, Blog (Travel, Wildlife Conservation, Madhya Pradesh)

  • Conservation across landscapes: India’s approaches to Biodiversity Conservation, Book, (co-authors: Krishnan P., Ramakrishnan R, Saigal S, Nagar S, Faizi S, Panwar HS, Singh S), UNDP, Blog (Wildlife Conservation)

2011

  • Northern Treeshrew Tupaia belangeri in Southern Mizoram, India, JBNHS, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Mizoram)

  • Celebrating Wildlife Week at Mizoram, Ecotone, Blog (Environment Education, Mizoram)

  • A walk through the life in Saiha, Hornbill, Blog (Travel, Mizoram)

  • Conservation Education Network, IZE Newsletter, Blog (Environment Education)

  • Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis) and Jerdons Baza (Aviceda jerdoni) in Saiha, Mizoram (co-author: T John), Indian Birds, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Mizoram)

  • Hornbills in Southern Mizoram: history, beliefs and recent sightings, Indian Birds, Blog ( Wildlife Conservation, Mizoram)

2010

  • Kestrels in Saiha, Migrantwatch blog, Blog (Mizoram)

  • Conservation Education: Approaches and ideas from a national network, Newsletter of the NNHS, Blog (Environment Education)

  • State Animal and State Bird, Kiltheirawk, ASEP, Blog (Mizoram)

  • Fantail Flycatcher, Kiltheirawk, ASEP,  Blog (Mizoram)

  • Letter to editor, Indian Birds, Blog (Mizoram)

2009

  • Learning from Action – Conservation Education with schools at Saiha, Education for Change, Newsletter of the Envis Centre for Environment Education, Blog (Environment Education, Mizoram)

  • Conservation Education – Building on existing platforms, Zoos Print, Paryavaranmitra, Blog (Environment Education, Mizoram)

  • Film screening an effective tool for conservation education, Mountain Forum Bulletin, DKC, Blog (Environment Education, Mizoram)

  • Occurrence records of Bengal Slow Loris (Nycticebus bengalensis) in Northeastern India (co-authors: Rajamani Nandini, Kashmira Kakati), Asian Primates Journal, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Meghalaya)

  • Participatory Elephant Monitoring in South Garo Hills – Efficacy and Utility in a Human – Animal Conflict Scenario (co-authors: Anirban Datta Roy, A Christy Williams), Tropical Ecology, Paper presented at Tropical Ecology Congress at Dehradun (Uttarakhand) Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Meghalaya)

2008

  • Yellow-bellied Weasel (Mustela Kathiah) records from Mizoram, India, (co-author: S Lalramnuna), Small Carnivore Conservation, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Mizoram)

  • Week with the school, Zoos Print, Blog (Environment Education)

  • Employing Conservation Education to secure the Palak Lake Ecosystem – Mizoram (India) (co-authors: S Lalramnuna, Arpan Sharma, T Azyu) Asian Wetland Symposium, Blog (Environment Education, Mizoram)

  • Palak Lake in ‘Potential and Existing Ramsar sites in India’ by M Z Islam and A R Rahmani (co-authors: Anwaruddin Choudhury, Arpan Sharma), BNHS, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Mizoram)

2007

  • Tribals and large mammals: Survey of mammalian fauna and local attitudes towards wildlife in non protected areas in the vicinity of the Balpakram National Park, Meghalaya (co-author: Anirban Datta Roy) Tropical Ecology Congress, Poster presented, Blog (Wildlife Conservation, Meghalaya)

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