Yamuna is not a well-known river in the West. It is not as wide as the Amazon, nor is it as long as the Nile; even amongst Indian rivers it is outclassed in fame by both the Indus, the subcontinent’s longest
The tragopan last week had heard The rumour from another bird -Most probably a quail or sparrow: Such birds have gossip in their marrow- That man had hatched a crazy scheme To mar their land and dam their stream, To
I “We don’t really know what Ebola has done in the past, and we don’t know what it might do in the future.” —Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (December, 1994).
Thomas Crowley tries to investigate the media representation of the Bhopal tragedy including the most recent film Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain and tries to find out how such narratives can help us question the underlying structures involved…. How to
We live in the Anthropocene world where human activity manipulates or even dictates nature. The question then arises, how much of Earth and its resources do we own? Koli Mitra explores the dialectic between public and private property, the role
Thomas Crowley compares Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ and Hero MotoCorp’s ‘Manufacturing Happiness’ to the extent of politicising their supposed environmentally beneficial endeavours in order to reveal a neo-liberal mindset … It is perhaps no coincidence that Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat
Ebola might be at the furthermost corner of our minds but how well prepared are we if it becomes an immediate threat? G. Singh explores … The deadly Ebola has snuffed out several hundreds of lives in West Africa and
A road trip often includes experiences that become unforgettable memories, which stay with us long after the trip is over. Deepa Bhasthi recounts a few such memories from a recent road trip to Tamil Nadu… My favourite photograph from that
A couple of days ago, a business magazine picked her as one of the 25 most powerful women in India. The Director of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), one of India’s leading environmental NGOs, Sunita Narain is an award-winning activist for
The serious issue of water scarcity has often been side-lined owing to massive industrialisation and “corporate greed”. While we destroy the apparently “indestructible” water resources, Koli Mitra wonders about the future of such an endeavour … Maybe someday humans will