Why India Needs To Incentivise Water Reuse
While treated wastewater in India is often discharged into water bodies or used for non-essential purposes such as irrigating public...
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India’s Coastlines Are Eroding As States Fail To Plan Properly
Munai Beach lies at the eastern tip of Rameswaram Island, in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state, just past the abandoned...
Deporting Irregular Indian Immigrants From The US Will Have Blowback
In January 2022, four members of a family, from the western Indian state of Gujarat, froze to death at the...
Illegal Mining Imperils A Slender Loris Reserve
Walking along a pebble-strewn footpath to the Valayarumbu Aruvi waterfall in Tamil Nadu, we see two earth movers in an...
Making Women’s Work Count, In Real Time
Claudia Goldin, Nobel laureate and American labour economist, calls it ‘greedy’ work. This is work that requires long, inflexible working...
Donald Trump Wants US To ‘Take Over’ Gaza. Is This Legal?
In an astonishing news conference in Washington, US President Donald Trump proposed the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip...
Empowering Street Vendors To Transition From Single-Use Plastics
With the intergovernmental negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty now over, it is opportune to discuss India’s approach to plastic...
Restoration Of The Yamuna Marred By Concrete
As the Yamuna river flows, it cleaves the Indian capital of Delhi into two halves. On the eastern side, the...
As Climate Changes, Milk Industry Struggles
On a humid, late-July day this year, Chandan Singh went to milk his buffaloes, only to find five of them...
Environmental Laws ‘Given Pass’ In Kashmir’s Tourism Drive
The Gurez Valley lies on the Indian side of the Line of Control, which separates the two parts of the...
Han Kang: South Korean Author Wins The 2024 Nobel For Literature
It’s often the case that when poets write novels, they deliver arrestingly vivid and nimble prose. Han Kang’s The Vegetarian...
The Empty Slogan Of ‘Never Again’
For a year, the world has watched as more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, and a further...
Punjab’s ‘Cancer Train’ Runs On Hope
At 9.30pm every night, a poorly-lit, 12-coach train pulls out of Bathinda station in Punjab with passengers of all ages...
This Diet Change Can Help The Planet
Choosing foods that are good for us, good for the planet, accessible and affordable is a complex problem to solve....
Nobel Peace Prize To Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors’ Group
The 2024 Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots organisation created by survivors of the two US...
Ratan Tata: A Rare, Compassionate Industrialist
Ratan Tata, who has died at the age of 86, was a giant of global industry, whose interests included cars, steel, hotels,...
Arsenic Kills By Stealth In India’s Villages
Public health interventions have been few and far between to check the continuing ravages of arsenic poisoning in India. When...
Cancer: The Hidden Hazard In The Construction Industry
Construction work has been linked to many types of cancer. But more research is needed to understand what causes these...
Gaza War Deaths: The Story Behind The Nos.
Identifying every person killed in the conflict is an extremely difficult process – and vital for understanding what has happened....
Gaza And The Rise Of Global South Diplomacy
Western diplomacy has tied itself in knots over Israel. It may herald the end of Western dominance on the global...
The Memoir Of A Mountaineer-Geologist
The book, Breaking Rocks and Barriers, chronicles the life of Sudipta Sengupta, a mountaineer and geologist, with many firsts to...
When Books Sink Underwater In Assam
Assam’s annual floods pose a challenge for students commuting to schools and cause damage to the school’s infrastructure. While residents...
Almost 20 Years After The Tsunami, Andaman’s Mangroves Are Still Changing
After the 2004 tsunami, mangroves in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are still changing. A mass mortality of mangroves was...
How Israel Is Destroying Its Own Reputation
Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski warned in 2002 that Israel was losing its global standing as Israeli-Palestinian violence...
Conserving Old Ways In A New World
Despite the growing global acknowledgment of indigenous knowledge and practices in conservation, there is a lack of policies or legal...
