Amita Bhaduri
Living on the edge
Posted on 23 May, 2017 01:03 PMA tiger takes a stroll outside the reserve area, breeds on forest patches and looks out for waterholes, all under the curious eyes of visitors. This footage is from Tadoba, a popular tiger habitat in Chandrapur, Maharashtra that draws a lot of domestic and foreign tourists these days. The number of tigers in Tadoba is increasing.
![Tiger in Corbett national park. (Source: Soumyajit Nandy, Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/tiger-soumyajit-nandy_0.jpg?itok=l0EiTrHx)
The dirty picture
Posted on 12 May, 2017 11:27 AMKakkoos, a compelling documentary film on manual scavenging in Tamil Nadu is all about showing the practice as it is without any filter.
![Manual scavenging is a caste issue. (Image: Divya Bharathi, Facebook)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kakoos.jpg?itok=RPjJOLmq)
In the name of development
Posted on 06 May, 2017 08:12 PMPankaj Sekhsaria’s recent book Islands in flux--The Andaman and Nicobar Story is a collection of around 20 years of his writings on the environmental and conservation concerns faced by the indigenous tribal communities of the region.
![The forests and the tribal communities of the islands are being decimated. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/wikimedia_commons.jpg?itok=JmEotKOU)
When streets get smart
Posted on 17 Apr, 2017 05:13 AMIndia's urbanisation continues unabated but most of its 53-million plus cities offer an appallingly low quality of life.
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Ryots wronged, take protest to Delhi
Posted on 13 Apr, 2017 05:51 AMA woman stands with a begging bowl and a placard strung around her neck. An old man shuffles along barefoot in the street at Jantar Mantar, the official site of a farmers’ protest in the heart of New Delhi. He finds his way through a group of farmers gathered at the protest site on a hot summer afternoon.
![Tamil Nadu farmers protest for drought relief in Delhi.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/agitators-final.jpg?itok=wXCtxpeW)
Budget beyond gender
Posted on 08 Apr, 2017 08:00 PMSneh Bhati, a 52-year-old farmer from Madanpur Khadar in Delhi’s fringes finds the change in the landscape of her 100-year-old village in the last two decades remarkable. Yet it has not taken away the rural charm.
![It's her field too: Policies and budgets for women are a good beginning towards gender parity in agriculture.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farmer-madanpur-khadar_new2.jpg?itok=jQXSLT94)
Election update: Its hills vs plains in Manipur
Posted on 04 Mar, 2017 05:33 PMThe key issue in the Manipur Assembly election is the ongoing economic blockade in the state, which, in turn, is attributed to the present government’s decision to
![A Manipuri family. (Source: Coffee Table Book, Government of Manipur)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/manipuri-smile-gom.jpg?itok=sdrnIfcQ)
Act to clean up the system
Posted on 27 Feb, 2017 01:53 PMWith the Right to Information (RTI) Act coming into force in the year 2005, the country saw many RTI activists making the most of it to demand the rights and entitlements of the people from the government. Pushpa, warmly known as Pushpa RTI, is one of them.
![Women at Jan Jagriti Sanvad organised by Lok Shakti Manch. (Source: Lok Shakti Manch)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/lok-shakti-manch-jan-jagriti-sanvad.jpg?itok=DGOmhjR3)
What WatSan got from the budget
Posted on 09 Feb, 2017 12:26 PMThe much-anticipated budget this year treads largely on the path set last year with the rural sector receiving more allocation than its urban counterpart.
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All eyes on agriculture
Posted on 31 Jan, 2017 07:28 PMThe agriculture sector in India’s drought-ravaged regions is in a state of crisis. Millions of farmers are pushed out of their farms and into the cities for jobs.
![Farmers thresh paddy during harvest at Sangrur, Punjab. (Source: Neil Palmer, CIAT, 2011, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/threshing_harvest_sangrur_punjab_india-neil-palmer-ciat-2011-wikimedia-commons.jpg?itok=LRwAqKx7)