We Can’t Talk About The Environment Without Talking About Indigenous People’s Rights
Written by Purnima Singh | This article was originally published on Feminism in India and has been reproduced on The Bastion with full permission.
From rallying for climate action...
Nowhere Close to Ideal: Scrutinising NEET
Co-authored by Shraddha Tripathi & P. Charith Reddy
A 2017 WHO report revealed that the current doctor-population ratio of India to be 0.62:1000 as against...
How Do We Facilitate Women-Led Entrepreneurship Through Government Initiatives?
Edited by Malavika V N
Presently, out of the whole set of entrepreneurs in India, only 13% comprise of women. Considering that women constitute close...
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...
Taking the Classroom Online: E-Education for India
India’s education landscape is vast ─ close to 260 million students attend more than 1.5 million schools and around 30.5 million college students attend...
In the Eye of the Storm: Luna’s Lone War for Clean Water
The village of Luna is like any other village in Gujarat — vast stretches of green, mud and brick houses pockmarked around the fields,...
High Hopes: Athletes’ Case for Legalising Cannabis
Co-authored by Siddhant Sachdeva & Sreeradh Radhakrishnan
In April 2018, former Golden State Warriors player Matt Barnes revealed in an interview that he used cannabis...
Weighing Priorities within India’s Coastal Contests
Co-authored by Kanishk Srinivasan and Pratik Purswani
Coastal Regulation Zones (CRZs) attempt to address the vagaries of development along India’s coastline. Before 1991, very little...
Passing Clearances, Bypassing Consultations
Written by Arpitha Kodiveri
Nestled within the mangroves along the coast of the Bay of Bengal are three panchayats of Gobindpur, Dhinkia, and Nuagaon. Bordered...
Looking Beyond the Obvious: The Need to Conserve Genetic Diversity in Our Oceans
The world’s oceans and seas are home to about 5,00,000–10 million marine species, with up to 2000 new species described every year. However, many...
