Involving Local Participation: What the EIA 2020 Could Have Done
Part 1 of "Shrinking Negotiations" gave us a snapshot of a glaring gap in the Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) 2020 notification. If passed,...
Go, Goa, Gone: Understanding Goa’s Crisis
Written by Kanishk Srinivasan
Goa is undergoing a major identity crisis. The State has been earmarked for activities such as mining, a massive port-expansion, river...
Trochus Trade in the Andaman Islands: How Top Shells from the Bottom of the...
This is the first instalment of a two-part series on trochus fishery and conservation in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Click here to read...
Your Corporator: The Elected Representative You Forget to Vote For
Corporators have the agency and opportunity to attend to, if not solve, the most immediate and proximate woes of an urban citizen. Yet, municipal elections continue to be one of the most ignored aspects of Indian democracy, with local politics playing subordinate to state and national politics.
Alleviating India’s Irrigation Woes
Co-authored by Sourya Reddy & Siddhant Sachdeva
India’s large irrigation system consists of several canals, rainwater harvesting, and groundwater well systems, of which the last...
The State is Evicting Forest Dwellers in J&K and Implementing The Forest Rights Act,...
In the throes of Jammu and Kashmir’s winter earlier this month, pastoralists were in for a shock. About 10,000 apple trees were razed by...
Losing Ground: Why Are Protected Areas Still The Model Form of Conservation?
Hosted by Aarathi Ganesan
Edited by Nidhi Rejithlal
As our series on Losing Ground has noted, the Protected Areas (PA) model of conservation is fraught by...
How The Youth are Taking Charge of the Climate
Welcome to the first episode of Blindspots! Over the course of the next few videos, we will be shedding light on the missing aspects...
Out Of Breath: The Ghazipur Landfill (Part I)
Filmed by Nabina Chakraborty and Sumit Krishna Yadav.
The Ghazipur landfill has been operating as a garbage dumping ground since 1984. Standing at a height...
Damaged, Desolate & Dirty: What Rehabilitation Looks Like for Khori’s Residents
Rehabilitation for those citizens evicted from Khori Gaon still remains a distant dream.
