On Writing Ground Stories from Home
I move between worlds. Anybody who reads, watches movies, or writes, would know what I mean. Physically, you’d be occupying the space around you,...
Stories from Beggar’s Home: How the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act Of 1959 Criminalises...
To address the issue of begging in India justly, a new government vocabulary and responsibility surrounding destitution needs to be developed.
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?
Meghalaya: Finding Local Solutions to India’s Water Crisis
Written by Tarini Monga
This year, Assam, Bihar and most recently, Karnataka are battling floods. Jharkhand, on the other hand, is staring at a drought...
Out of the Woods: How the FRA Is Helping a Village in Maharashtra During...
This is not what a haat or a weekly market should look like: the place is not bustling with people buying and selling produce,...
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...
Changing Notions of Human-Leopard Conflict around Jhalana Leopard Reserve, Jaipur
The news of a pregnant elephant dying after consuming a pineapple filled with crackers in Kerala has been doing the rounds. The fact that...
How CRZ Violations Are Being Regularized Instead of Regulated Across India’s Shoreline
A combination of judicial and civic action is attempting to protect India's coasts from its own regulators.
The Risky Business of Large Hydropower Dams
On 23 April 2020, the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC)—the panel under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change that approves forest clearance for...
“It has become Acid”: Aravallis battle against Garbage Disposal and More
Written by Vaishnavi Rathore
“When we were around 9 years old, we used to go to the bani, and you would not believe the kind...
