For millions of tourists, Ramnagar is the gateway to Corbett tiger reserve. Most hotels and resorts are clustered around this town. It is the national park headquarters that issues permits.

Expectations were low at Doha. But the 18th conference of parties (Cop 18) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change surprised even the cynics by legitimising a couldn’t-care-less doctrine.

The human mind is brilliant, and enterprising. First we build dams and drown vast stretches of wilderness under reservoirs.

Before forest officers start explaining tiger deaths as suicides, a timely NTCA move comes as a big push for transparency