Trump/Harris: Who’s The Better Bet For India?
India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar recently said “we have every confidence that we will be able to work with...
Month: August 2024
Malnutrition Is Killing Our Future Sports Stars
The 2024 Paris Olympics was a hard reckoning for India. The nation won just six medals and was 71st in...
Gender Apartheid In Afghanistan
Until the collapse of Afghanistan’s US-backed government in August 2021, few knew clearly what the Taliban wanted once they had...
The Big Numbers India Needs To Hit 2047 Target
When India’s prime minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on Independence Day, he outlined an ambitious vision of “Viksit Bharat",...
A Cruise On The Narmada River: Is It Legal, Just Or Justified?
The Madhya Pradesh Tourism Department’s cruise project on the Narmada river faces strong opposition due to potential ecological disruption and...
US Unlikely To Stop Giving Military Aid To Israel
The Democratic National Convention has been packed with prominent speakers and musical interludes that all focus on unity and moving...
Empty Promises & Broken Taps In U’khand
Basanti Devi sits in her courtyard, surrounded by plastic containers, most of them empty. She points to a tap, held...
A Know-It-All Book On The Cat With Black Ears
Caracal, known as ‘siyah gosh’ (black ear) in many parts of the world, including India, is one of the wild...
Can The Agniveer Scheme Fix India’s Army?
The Agniveer scheme was launched by the Indian government in June 2022. Its primary goal was to achieve a leaner...
Thailand’s New PM: From Heiress To ‘Hostage’
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thailand’s youngest prime minister, faces immense political risks as she steps into a role shadowed by her family’s...
Conservation Drones Need To Overcome Some Take-off Troubles
Drones in the Indian forests are mapping habitats, locating invasive species, monitoring and tracking animal movements, helping reduce wildfires and...
Clearing The Air On Snow Leopards And Last Chance Tourism
He had come all the way from France to the barren Himalayan heights of Ladakh at the edge of Tibet...
Coal Mining Degraded 35% Of Land Cover In Central Coal Belt
A new study captures how three coal mines in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh affected land use change over three decades,...
Slow Progress Hits Solar Street Light Initiative In Bihar
The Mukhyamantri Gramin Solar Street Light Scheme in Bihar, aimed at installing over one million solar street lights by September...
The Vocabulary Of Our Ecological Discontent
Stress about climate change and its impact on our lives is now common across the globe. Neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers...
Pots Of Trouble With Increasing Temperatures And Shifting Markets
Increasing temperatures and erratic rainfall are making traditional pottery harder for potters who depend on natural raw materials. Faced with...
Why The Wayanad Landslide Must Not Fade From Memory
Scientific predictions indicate that extreme weather events, leading to disasters such as the Wayanad landslide, will become more frequent and...
How India Can Build A Winning Sports Culture
India’s relative lack of success at the Paris Olympics (one silver and five bronze) highlights a sporting culture that hasn’t...
On The Trail Of The Wayanad Landslide
On July 30, 2024, a massive landslide struck the Vellarimala hill ranges in Wayanad district, Kerala, causing fatalities and widespread...
What Next For Bangladesh?
Protests and bloodshed have toppled Sheikh Hasina’s regime, but the way forward is far from certain. Here are four possible...
The Danger Trump Poses To The Climate – And Our Future
On June 10, the daytime temperature in Phoenix, Arizona, touched 45 degrees Celsius. Addressing voters there that day, Republican Party...
Palm Oil Plans Wreak Havoc On The Ground
The push for large-scale monoculture plantations of oil palm is taking a toll on the environment and on people's economic...
Lesson From Wayanad: Disaster Mitigation And Not Disaster Management
Kerala witnessed one of its worst-ever landslides on July 30, killing more than 199 people so far and flattening at...
How Unplanned Development And Unusual Rain Ended In Disaster
The Kerala landslide underscores the importance of preserving human lives in the Western Ghats region amid the challenges of climate...
Critical Minerals Are Set To Rock Geopolitical Status Quo
When China, the world’s top processor of rare earths, moved to ban the export of its rare earth extraction and...
