The crows shouted for they knew not how to spend the leisure; the nightingales adorned their nests, the hay became stacks. The nightingales hatched, their breaths were visible. One flight — and the world knew the newborn. Suddenly all shouting

Kashmir was caught in the deathly throes of a natural calamity, but the political battle between the Center and the state failed to devise an efficient strategy of countering it. The former’s reluctance to help and the latter’s unpreparedness, the

It might seem that the crux of the sanitation issue revolves around people without access to toilets, but it also has a lot to do with those who do have access to it. Koli Mitra looks into the impasse between

To bring about a change in the way rural India thinks and aid them in enabling better sanitation methods, the Gram Art Project conducted a ten-day event in Paradsinga village in Madhya Pradesh. Samudra Kajal Saikia has all details from

The Voices from the Waters International Travelling Film Festival has been a novel enterprise regarding the critical issue of water scarcity which was held in Bangalore recently, Deepa Bhasthi reports … We are largely made of it; the earth is

The Voices from the Waters International Travelling Film Festival has been unique in stitching together cinematic narratives that speak of myriad relations with rivers, lakes, dams. Deepa Bhasthi talks of such films which employ water as a personal metaphor and

The rapid growth of infrastructure in Gurgaon has often been environmentally insensitive to its issue of water shortage. Will Gurgaon be a ‘dead’ city in the near future? Harsh Snehanshu reports …  In a sweltering afternoon of May 2014, a