CHEERS FOR THE BIG CAT...!!!

The national animal which was on the path of being extinct has resurfaced once again from the ashes.

The latest tiger count conducted by ENVIRONMENT AND FOREST MINISTRY saw a breakthrough in their population .The journey from 1411 -1706 was not easy.The govt under the sound leadership of Mr. Jairam Ramesh took strong measures to  save the big cat. The most significant rise in the population of tiger was found in South India, (Nagarhole-Wayanad-Mudumulai) where the numbers have increased by 36%.

Though almost all hubs of tigers saw a rise in their numbers but the figures from Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh were as disappointing as ever.

Last time,in the 2006 census  the counting had excluded 70 tigers in the SUNDERBANS region .The method of counting is considered more accurate this time than during the previous census. As the declining population of tigers had become a serious matter, this time Government has used methods like video tapping and satellite data to track tigers for their safety and counting.

This census report by the ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY is surely going to encourage more people to help in this direction. Tiger conservationists welcomed the news and said that the population increase was due to the authorities surveying more areas to conduct the census and creating more tiger reserves.

This is a step in the right direction but we still have a long way to go.at the time of independence there were a good number of 40000 tigers in India.we would all like the 'history to repeat' itself.

Greensphere core team interviews

The interviews for the next year core team will be conducted on the 26th of March from 1:00 p.m. at 2nd floor, Mechanical Block. Here are the posts available:

1. President: open to current 3rd years
2. Vice-President: open to current 3rd years
3. General Secretary: open to 2nd & 3rd years
4. Treasurer: open to 2nd & 3rd years
5. Team heads: open to 2nd years
6. Team sub-heads:open to 1st years
7. Website team co-ordinator-open to the current web team and all the years.


Here are the teams:
Public relations team
Event Management team
Creative team
Vermi-composting team
Paper recycling team
Plastic management
Social/Technical projects team


People going for the post of President, Vice-President and General Secretary are required to come up with a proper plan of what they will do if they get any one of the three posts i.e.agendas and ideas which are feasible in IGIT and how they will go about it.

GENERAL SECRETARY's post requires a lot of writing stuff, so if you are into making reports and are organized, then you are the best person for it. Plus she has to look after the problems faced by each team and keep a tab on the work that is going on. She will also take care of the members. Since this time the Membership Incharge post will not be there as Secretary will perform the required work.

Team heads and sub-heads manage teams so they need to have leadership skills and ideas which can take the team forward. They need to be good planners. They should have good communication skills and path breaking ideas.

Creative team head and sub-head are required to be good at fine arts+they should know how to operate Adobe Photoshop as the posters are made in that only.

People interested in Website team should know the HTML and CSS language which is required for maintaining our website. If database connectivity is known, then you will be preferred.

Interviews will be held for the members of the Public Relations, Social/technical and Event management team as these are the teams that have worked with reputed ngo's like WWF and IYCN and will be working in future as well. The members selected will work for the ongoing projects of IYCN plus they will get to work in orphanages as well.

Preference will be given to those who have worked for Greensphere in the past. The interested students should know about the latest environmental issues.

The interviews will be presided by 4 people from 4th year

1. Shreya Srivastava-President  (9868762904)
2. Prarthana Gulati-Vice president  (9953573690)
3. Disha Wahi-General Secretary   
4. Taru Singhal-Treasurer

In case of any queries, call at the given numbers.

Hoping to get a better team next year
Thanking you
Shreya Srivastava
President, Green Sphehrere

nature vs politics !!!

First it’s was Obama,now it’s Sarkozy.same difference.

Seeing India as a lucrative cradle for application of technology,developed countries are leaving no stone unturned to invest in here for their own profit.The recent visit of France’s President Sarkozy served as a blow to many citizens of India.

The reason : installation of 2 nuclear reactors in Jaitapur,Maharashtra amidst great uproar by the public and media alike.the goal of France eventually is to establish a  whole lot of 6 nuclear reactors.

India,is allegedly to fulfill its 50% of power needs via nuclear energy by 2050.How I wish the world would come to an end in 2012...

The background of this deal goes a long way back,when France was the first supporter of India’s not signing of the non –proliferation treaty.That support was envisaged by France  quite correctly.India offers wide opportunities to western powers to expand their businesses in the garb of improvement of the‘developing states’.be it America ,or France.same difference.

With this political backdrop,the villagers of mumbai seem to understand nothing but their vitality and stability.’ The protest is the latest by fishermen, farmers and their families who will have to move to make way for the 9,900-megawatt plant, which the government hopes will help alleviate India's crippling energy deficit. They have rejected a compensation package and raised fears about the contamination of fish stocks, plus concerns about the loss of agricultural land, including for growing mangoes, which are one of the state's main crops. Campaigners also say that locating the plant in an earthquake-prone zone is "deeply irresponsible", with the risk compounded by the lack of an independent regulator to oversee India's nuclear industry and NPCIL's safety record.’states the

economic times.

 the question is why did India agree to all this??                                        

INDIA The CHAMPION OF The OPPRESSED IGNORED THE PEOPLE’S PROTESTS AND CONTINUED TO APPEASE FRANCE.WHY?

the possible answer to this question is that France has immensely advocated support for india’s inclusion in the security council of the UN.this really does put the honesty and credibility of our two honorable ministers in bad light.

we as responsible citizens can only keep track of the developments in the country,and make sure she is put to no harm. but when politics mixes with anything as holy as the nature it’s bound to corrupt it as well.  

wildlife week's worries...

The whales are killed in the deep ocean, the tusks are being removed from elephants and the skins and bones of tiger are exchanged in the border area, rare migratory birds are captured and sold in the black markets around the world. Yet, every year around this time (October 2 to 8) Wildlife Week is celebrated by governments, environmentalists, activists to accelerate the awareness of wildlife conservation among people.

India has two hot spots — the eastern Himalayas and the Western Ghats — is one of the 12 mega-diversity countries. With only 2.4 per cent of the global land area, it possesses more than 45,000 plant species representing about 11 per cent of the world's biota. The flowering plants comprise about 17,500 species that represent more than 6 per cent of world's known flowering plants. There are a number of botanical curiosities in the Himalayas only.


tiger gets the lion’s share:
tiger continues to be cynosure the government's conservationist efforts. Is it because tiger is our national animal? If so, what about peacock, the national bird? The rampant killing of this beautiful bird continues unabated for its feather in India.


dolphin’s dreadful demise??
Among various critically endangered species, the plight of Ganges river dolphin is an indicative of the government's callous attitude to the wildlife. The river dolphins, one of the four fresh water dolphins in the world, found in the Indian Subcontinent are on the verge of extinction.

discrimination unabated.....

besides tigers there are many species that are on the verge of extinction or endangered and also as important as tigers for the balance of ecosystems. But other animals such as elephants, musk deer, Tibetan antelope, rhinoceros, red panda, Ganges river dolphin, etc., are not getting similar care.


this wildlife’s week these are the few of many questions we need to answer??
is mr. jairam ready??

another sad chapter in the history of our long forgotten fauna...

She the savior; you the destroyer…

They say those who endeavor for others’ happiness end up being alone;
How true does this seem in this incentive seeking world .
The earth made our life worth living, comforting us ever since.
But what does she get in return?
Nonchalance, callousness and despair!!

Mothers as always are unconditional lovers,
Compassionate and caring, thoughtful and tireless…
But the children ready to lift their dreams high…
Easily Forgetful of all her sacrifices made!!


The mother always gives, never demands...
For the dreams you see, the seeds she sows.
For how much higher you fly…
She eyes you and keeps her arms open; if you fall!

She guards you, she guides you!
Yet you ignorantly trample upon her…
Crushing her very existence.
Selfish, cowards, is what you are!!



Giving you shade amidst the heat of hurdles.
Enriching your soul, with the drops of thunder.
The softness of leaves, the aroma of flowers...
The tenderness of shrubs, the fiery sun!

All she gives to you, for you she lived
But because of you she’ll die..!!

She has done the unthinkable…
And you are just unstoppable...
Searching avenues of success...
Ignoring the companion without which you would be nothing!!



I see that you and I are making it whimper...
I dread that we will strangulate her…
Making her cry for her own existence..
What will ‘we’ get in return??

Definite destruction, absolute annihilation
Total termination…!!!
Wake up!! Save her….save us!!

THE DAYS THOSE WERE..

Fifty years have passed since the new millennium,
And we did celebrate it with the humble old rum,
Those were the days of gusto and joy,
when the nature restrained itself to play its ploy.

Those were the days when the songs of the cuckoo used to wake us,
when the fragrance of the fresh lilies used to greet us,
When the morning was full of the cool breeze,
and the scattering of the pollens used to make us sneeze.

Those were the days when the colours of the nature were as vibrant as a rainbow,
when the cuckoo used to lay her eggs in the nest of the crow,
when the peacocks used to dance spreading her multi-hued feathers,
and the lovebirds used to croon joyously together.

Those were the days, my son, every drop of the river was as pure as the smile on a young girl's face,
when the pulchritude of the blue planet was known in the whole space,
When the nature was bestowed with the title "mother",
and this magnanimous mother used to shower us with these colourfull weathers.

When the greens of the trees,
and the blue of the seas,
used to blend together,
the way long lost mates used to embrace each other.

Where are those days gone, my son?
Humans have still not learned their lesson,
We continue to malign those beautiful rivers,
which will erase the smile from the girl's face forever.

Where are those lovely birds, my son?
Humans have forced them to run,
No cuckoo or crow or peacock or an occasional sparrow,
we have targeted each and every winged creature with our cruel arrows.

I still miss the scent of those lilies,
We have driven these blossoms to flee,
These buds of new life are nowhere to be seen,
all this shows how much humans have become so mean.

There is still time my son; to reverse these disastrous effects,
To live a beautiful life or not; you select,
I have learned my mistakes; now it is your turn,
please make the nature return those ferns...

Hear the mother’s call; lest we all shall fall

The nature has bestowed its bounties on us.
Selflessly;
The man has crushed all hopes for future
Recklessly;
We never stop just for once to reflect,
What the past gave us, what we took from the present and what the future holds??
All we do is run; run fast; faster still…
In search of newer revelations, brighter prospects, more comforts, more supremacy!!
In this crave to touch newer heights…
We end up touching newer lows.
This crave for more power breeds innovation
It leaves us more of a pauper than anything else.

It takes us away from the cool shade of the trees,
Away from the daily songs of the birds,
Away from nature’s lullabies.
Away from you,
Away from me!


The earth gave us all hints it could,
Caused devastations to make us see sense,
The tsunamis, the floods, the droughts, the hunger, the despair!!
What more?
Rising temperatures; melting glaciers
Winters getting colder, summers hotter still.
Materialistic Man is too busy contemplating these phenomenons as ‘scientific’,
When I believe that the mother is bleeding, crying out loud, moaning!
In the hope…that it may be heard, above the deafening silence we live in.

The nature has bestowed its bounties on us.
Selflessly;
The man has crushed all hopes for future
Recklessly;