Western Ghats - Sky Islands

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from the Western Ghats

Chasing A Colour Bomb

Preeti Swaminathan December 4, 2025

What can the gorgeous Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher tell us about endangered freshwater habitats in the Western Ghats?

Roots Across the Sea: Shared Ecologies in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka

Soham Kacker October 15, 2025

A botanist’s journey through Sri Lanka’s landscape considers its flora, parallel to that of the Western Ghats: all of it part of the same vital biodiversity hotspot

Queer By Nature

Nitha Fathima August 13, 2025

The connection between queerness and fungi has often been made—what can it teach us about queer kinship, community and care today? A researcher takes stock in the rain-soaked Western Ghats