In Hindu culture, one of the manifestations of Brahman is satya (truth). In Christianity, in the process of crucifixion of Jesus, Pontius Pilate exclaims, “What is truth?” For millennia, human beings of all cultures and faiths, have pondered on the nature of what constitutes the
Shubhobroto Ghosh is author of the Indian Zoo Inquiry and Project Manager of Wildlife at World Animal Protection in India Expectedly, there is buzz around the birth of a white tiger cub in Bengal Tiger Safari, near Siliguri on 18 May, 2018. The white cub birth,
Shubhobroto Ghosh is a Wildlife Projects Manager with World Animal Protection People are rightly dismayed to learn that the tiger spotted in Lalgarh in West Bengal has been killed, reportedly by local hunters who used spears, bows and arrows to kill the cornered creature on 13th
It was in April 2012, when I first felt I must unearth the lost story of Kolkata’s Alipore Zoo Hybridization Program. I had a discussion with a colleague of mine on whether hybrid animals could be fertile. Whilst my colleague stolidly maintained that all hybrids
This is the third giraffe fatality of Alipore Zoo in recent memory. In 2008, a Giraffe from Alipore Zoo died en route to Nandankan after being electrocuted by contact with a high voltage wire. Last year in 2016, a giraffe from Alipore Zoo died soon