Coping Badly at Copenhagen
THE IRONY WAS ALL TOO OBVIOUS. And it happened less than 24 hours after the planet’s three largest polluters – the United States, China and India (in that order) – came together with two other...
View ArticleCreatures of Light and Darkness
THROUGHOUT THE TAUT 80-MINUTE runtime of Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar’s documentary Katiyabaaz (Powerless), electricity is referred to almost as a divine being. Mercurial and all-powerful, it...
View ArticleGhana | Dire Prospects
MUSA KAREEM LEANED against his taxi, a 1997 Daewoo Tico, looking in the direction of a large house in the mining district of Dunkwa in Ghana’s Central Region. It was normally his favourite spot for...
View ArticleDown by the Water
AS A CHILD in the early 2000s, Surender Solanki used to travel from his home in a slum in west Delhi to visit his relatives in the city’s east, crossing over the Yamuna River by bus. He remembers...
View Article“Congestion is a market response to a place being good”: A Talk By Dinesh Mohan
Dinesh Mohan retired as Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2015. He was previously the Coordinator of the Transportation...
View Article“It’s actually a land-grab in the name of a festival”: An interview with...
On 9 March 2016, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), a special tribunal conceived in 2010 to handle cases pertaining to environmental issues, ordered the Art of Living (AOL) foundation—headed by the...
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No amount of cleaning can cure the Yamuna unless it is liberated at...
“Where we are sitting right now was also a part of the original floodplains of the Yamuna,” Manoj Mishra lamented, when I met him on 25 March at his Mayur Vihar residence in East Delhi, around three...
View ArticleCoca-Cola’s inimical business practices in India’s heartlands
On 19 October last year, a joint inspection team of officers from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) submitted a report to the National...
View ArticleThe Coal Within: The Black Death | 3
On 28 April, Leisang in Manipur became the final village in the country to be connected to the power grid, and the Indian government declared that it had achieved 100-percent electrification. However,...
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