Tag: Tamil Nadu
A Port Expansion is the Latest Threat to the Ennore-Pulicat Wetlands
No Chennai resident can possibly forget the floods of 2015. The horrors of this natural disaster that impacted more than 30 lakh families, and...
A Vision for Sustainable Consumption in the Future, Rooted in Tradition
This is the final article of a three-part series on sustainable consumption and food security in India, supported by Pristine Organics. Click here to...
ASHA Workers and the Burden of Unpaid Care Work
Health workers such as Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), among others, have been part of the National Health Mission (NHM) since 2005. An ASHA...
2020: Like Never Before, a Year of Despair and Hope
2020 has seen an interregnum never before experienced by humanity—it has been a year in which despair and hope, and callousness and caring have...
Education in Times of COVID: How Corporation Schools in Chennai Are...
Like every other industry, education systems across the world have come to a crashing halt in the face of COVID-19. Although the pandemic has...
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,...
DIKSHA: The Long-Awaited Antidote to India’s Education Crisis?
Written by Aparna Ramanujam
It’s a blistering afternoon in Tamil Nadu, in July 2019. Inside a school in central Chennai, students run amok-the heat is...
To Live or to Let Live? River Cauvery Is Lost for...
Co-authored by Chirag Chinnappa, Gopika Kumaran and Aishwarya Birla
Pushed to the edge, the Cauvery river is the latest to join the growing list of...
A Zero Sum Game: the State(s), the People and River Cauvery
Written by Chirag Chinnappa
On Friday, the Supreme Court’s much-awaited decision on the Cauvery water-sharing dispute was accepted as a “balanced verdict” by Karnataka officials....
