Arun Ganguly has been photographing his garden for some time. These are lush images of plants and flowers, captioned meticulously, sent to his friends and acquantances. Ganguly, 83, has been well-kno...

When Europeans arrived in India, they were dazzled by the subcontinent’s exotic flora and fauna. The colonizers thus started commissioning local artists to paint these. In the absence of the tec...

The Double Coconut Tree (Lodoicea Maldivica) at the Indian Botanic Garden, which underwent a cross-country pollination in 2013 appears to be dying. Though garden authorities are hopeful that the tree ...

BSI’s exclusive portal (www.bsi.archive) allows one to access its rare holdings through www.bsi.gov.in. In a decade-long exercise, more than 15,000 samples of textile designs, natural dyes ...

There is something inherently beautiful about trees standing tall amidst the highs and lows of daily life. We may miss them but they’re there, watching over the fuming traffic, men and women going a...

It all began when Peter V. Minorsky, a botanist and professor at Mercy College in the US, got in touch with Das earlier this year. Minorsky wanted to know about the groundwater composition in the Coll...

Sir — The bard has famously said, “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” This is an important lesson to keep in mind. What better time to remind people th...

A new plant species in Assam has been named after Austrian scientist Christian Puff who had come to Assam in search of Rubiaceae plants.The species, Pavetta puffii, has been discovered by Jatindra Sar...

The Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Howrah does not have the clinicality one associates with any address of science. Some things have been allowed to grow wild, and then there a...