Dehradun, July 21 -- Two sides of the Doon story - One forested, one farmed

All Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

John Milton's Paradise Lost was written in 1667 and is considered (probably) the greatest poem in English literature. It is a biblical story of man falling prey to temptation and the subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Well in real life we did have a Garden of Eden and it was covering 70% of the planet till as recently as the 1950s. This Eden on Earth were our various Forests & Jungles with the myriad mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, plants, fungi and algae calling it home. Now over half of this paradise has been lost in the last 7 decades and today only around 30% of the Earth's l...