Laws, Leases, and Land: The Story of Adivasis Resisting Bauxite Mining in Mali Hills
12,000 Adivasis have been impacted by the Hindalco mining lease in Odisha. How could the law have come to their rescue?
Disaster Management in Kerala: Coming up Short and Dirty
Written by Tanay Gokhale
Researched by Ayushi Ghosh
The floods that ravaged Kerala were ruthless in their destruction. The physical damage to infrastructure is staggering; 11,000...
What if We Could Pay Farmers to Grow and Protect Forests?
COVID-19 is a global tragedy. However, what is of greater concern is that the pandemic is merely a symptom of a much larger problem:...
The Green Mile: Reintegrating India’s Inmates
Written by Aishwarya Birla
Prisons are seen as repositories for those who are aberrations in society, outcasts due to their unlawful acts. The Indian criminal...
50 Shades of Blue (Economy)
Co-authored by Simran Taneja and Aarathi Ganesan
In-Depth
For many developing countries, economic growth is facilitated by a booming manufacturing sector. Yet, in light of increasing...
How ‘Development’ in Jharkhand Contributed to a Water Crisis
As the Prime Minister declared a 21-day nationwide lockdown on the eve of 24th March, following WHO’s guidelines, the Ministry of Health and Family...
Lessons from Another Disaster: Revisiting Kachchh Amidst COVID-19
As humanity struggles to stay standing after the knock-out punch delivered by COVID-19, it may be useful to look at how we survived previous...
Is Goa Losing its Forests for Coal?
In 2011, ecologist Madhav Gadgil chaired the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) which submitted a report wherein all of the Western Ghats was...
The Tiger, The River and The Bureaucrat: Analysing the Ken-Betwa River Linking Project
Co-authored by Rohan Parikh and Sourya Reddy
The Ken-Betwa interlinking project is the first in an ambitious 30 river interlinking projects that the government has...
How Durga Puja in Kolkata Can Serve as a Site for Promoting Sustainability
One cannot undermine the power of cultural phenomena for addressing audiences that most forms of messaging cannot capture.
