The study of the environment is no more the "jholawala eco-terrorist’s realm". The vast body of literature available beginning with the promise—if you destroy the earth, it will destroy you—is evidence of this. The handy journal, Conservation and Society, brought out by publishers Sage, begins precisely here. Designed like a univ-journal, it explores the unhappy linkages between neo-global habits and local habitat, whereby being "short, nasty and brutish" has become all the more legitimised. With analytical essays, book reviews and quick references, it’s yet again a plea for sanity in a toxic world full of cluster bombs, acid fumes, big dams and displacement, and of course, insatiable consumption and waste.
He was the only Indian journalist reporting in Iraq. And so the only one to give us a first-hand account of the tank that opened arbitrary fire on Hotel Palestine, where he was lodged along with other scribes. Now Satish Jacob, ex-BBC and now correspondent for Worldview India on DD, compiles the experience in a book titled simply Satish Jacob From the Hotel Palestine. Published by Roli Books, the book will be out in June. You read him in Outlook (Carpet Bomb, April 21) before, now read the whole book.
