Reviewed by Rom Whitaker The first volume in their series ‘Chimaira Terralog’ on venomous snakes of the world, 'Venomous Snakes of Asia' is probably the first book which brings together good pictures of most of Asia’s venomous species. Text is...

By Soham Mukherjee Visitors to the Croc Bank would know, sometimes to their annoyance, that little egrets, night herons, cormorants and pond herons nest on the trees that shade the crocs. Ravi Sankaran, the ornithologist, declared Croc Bank to be one...

Photo: Rom Whitaker Growing up years… I was born in Zimbabwe in 1975. I’m the last of three children. My father was involved in the bush war and because he was in the army, it was tricky. So in 1980, we moved to South Africa for eight years for a...