Little known Great Indians

Over the past one month, a lot of noise has been made of India's triumph at the world stage. It started off with the Twenty-20. Then it was Viswanath Anand. Last week it was Dr. Pachauri, though the Nobel is meant for IPCC, which he has been heading since 2002.

A lesser known individual, Dr.Ullas Karanth has won this year's WWF Paul Getty Award for conservation leadeship. Dr.Ullas works in the area of wildlife conservation in general and tigers and elephants in particular. He has been fighting with the Government of India, to adopt newer scientific methods of counting tigers in the wild. These new methods like capture- recapture technique will lead to the real number of tigers alive, which have been inflated by the government as we saw in Sariska.

In an interview, Dr.Karanth says that the tigers will survive to the next century. We still have hope, as long we have men like Dr.Karanth and Mr. Valmik Thapar.