Rohan Chakravarty's Blog, page 33

A Faroe Islands Travel Itinerary for Dolphins

A comic on the mindless slaughter of Long-finned Pilot Whales and Atlantic White-sided Dolphins in the Faroe Islands in the name of 'tradition', from my column with Sunday Mid-Day. A petition to stop the Grindarap is on https://only.one/act/dolphinhunt . 

Life with a Strangler Fig

A cartoon on the Strangler Fig fro my column with Roundglass Sustain. Did someone ask for more botany cartoons?

Sea Pangolin and Deep Sea Mining

I never thought I'd ever use a Marvel reference in my comics, but here I am, because explaining the plight of this deep sea 'Iron Man' called for it! Meet the endangered Sea Pangolin, one of the many creatures threatened by deep sea mining for polymetallic nodules.
Special thanks to my friend and Marvel fan Anuradha Kulkarni for giving me a crash course on Iron Man because my knowledge about the Marvel universe is zilch. Comic from my column with Sunday Mid-Day.

Shark Death Stats

\Just a shark reading out some stats, in my column with The Hindu Weekend.

Palm Oil Expansion in India

On the expansion of palm oil in India from my column with The Hindu.

Nature Book Reviews by Wild Animals

Some wild bibliophiles review nature books in my column with Sunday Mid-Day. 

A Spoonbill and a Greenshank Discuss Shangchi

The endangered Black-faced Spoonbill and Nordmann's Greenshank have a conversation about habitat loss and cinema in my Gocomics page today. 

Tammar Wallaby and Embryonic Diapause

Australia's Tammar Wallaby is one of the many animals capable of arresting its pregnancy, a feat shared by other marsupials, bears, rodents, armadillos and weasels. Comic from my column with Sunday Mid-Day.

Moon Wrasse and Gender Pronouns

A Moon Wrasse teaches a pesky polychete some pronouns. Comic from my column with Sunday Mid-Day.
Thanks to Arushi Thapar and Rushika Banerji for helping with this comic, and for knocking some pronoun sensitivity into my head!

Taliban and Conservation

As researchers flee the Taliban rule, Afghanistan's national animal, the Snow Leopard ponders the future of science and conservation in this beautiful country. Comic from my column with The Hindu.