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Equity
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What's conservation without local hand?
Posted on 24 Mar, 2017 09:48 AMCan forest conservation policies that ignore the livelihood needs of local, indigenous populations succeed in protecting biodiversity and wildlife?
Experiences from the Sundarbans show that such policies not only result in the suffering of the local population, it also leads to the exploitation of natural resources and biodiversity in the region.
Maharashtra goes Doha for water
Posted on 22 Feb, 2017 12:02 PMThere was a time when the farmers of Yavatmal district depended completely on rainfed agriculture. That was before the introduction of Doha, a water harvesting structure by NGO Dilasa Sansthan in 2014. Farming changed drastically after that, something which Sitaram Kove, a 40-year-old farmer of Rajini village in the district, will vouch for.
The search for a shelter
Posted on 01 Feb, 2017 08:46 PMIn the last few decades, India has seen an increasing number of people migrating from rural areas to urban cities in search of work and better living. These migrants often get employed in the informal sector as construction workers, vendors, domestic servants, etc. They also live in informal settlements, generally known as slums.
What WatSan needs from budget
Posted on 26 Jan, 2017 08:20 AMAccording to a report by WaterAid, a water and sanitation nonprofit, released in 2016, India has the highest number (75.8 million) of people in the world without access to safe water.
Weather or not: Women workers need care in summer
Posted on 11 Jan, 2017 10:49 AMIn a tropical country like India, the summer months are hot which threaten the health of millions of people every year.