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Society, Culture, Religion and History
Step back in time into 'Ugrasen ki baoli'
Posted on 12 Oct, 2015 08:28 AMTucked away in a quiet by-lane of Delhi's busiest commercial centre Connaught Place, Agrasen or Ugrasen ki baoli waits imperially for a lost traveller to reach its steps.Called
![The old and the new: Ugrasen 'baoli' against the backdrop of Delhi.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/final.jpg?itok=58_6Q7_0)
Happy Anniversary, Swachh Bharat? Not quite
Posted on 05 Oct, 2015 07:26 PM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/3223299340_3325b94bb0_o.jpg?itok=3wMQ4FUS)
Reel Art: Interview with Usha Dewani-Das, 2015 CMS VATAVARAN film entry nominee
Posted on 05 Oct, 2015 06:05 PMThe 8th CMS VATAVARAN Environment and Wildlife Film Festival and Forum received a total of 178 film entries from 27 countries in 8 varied categories.
![Usha Dewani-Das,doing what she loves best: Reel Art (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/usha2.jpg?itok=cSnet_Jt)
The connection between gender and safe sanitation in rural India
Posted on 02 Oct, 2015 04:28 PMSanitation coverage in India continues to display marked disparities in access to safe toilet facilities between urban and rural populations across economic and social groups despite some impressive gains made.
![Health and sanitation, the linkages (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_and_toilets.jpg?itok=hxsrx72t)
These 'River View' apartments could get you in neck deep!
Posted on 02 Oct, 2015 03:59 PMAt a time when the Central Government has stressed the need to protect our rivers, the Kaliasot river green belt in Madhya Pradesh has witnessed haphazard growth due to illegal constructions. Not only has the flow of the river which flows from the center of Bhopal been affected, but also community lives have been impacted.
![Construction work in progress within the Kaliasot river basin area (Source: Shirish Khare)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kaliyasot_001.jpg?itok=a2BTiNz-)
Training on Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Interventions
Posted on 01 Oct, 2015 12:46 PMCourse Objectives:
At the completion of the training programme, the participants would be able to
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Activists demand Environmental Impact Assessment for Yettinahole project
Posted on 29 Sep, 2015 05:05 PMSocial Impact Assessment alone not enough for Yettinahole, say activists
![River Nethravathi (Source: Parineeta Dandekar via SANDRP)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc03688_0.jpg?itok=HcQH-EF9)
Relaunch of Buniyaad 2015- a 15 day activist training program
Posted on 22 Sep, 2015 04:17 PMSambhaavnaa Institute is organising a two week program for youth involved in initiatives of social change at its campus in in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh.
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A pond comes to life
Posted on 22 Sep, 2015 10:42 AMIt had not rained for awhile and the tiny cracks in the earth in Bapugaon were opening up. This little village in Chaksu tehsil of Jaipur was yet again faced with a drought in the mid 1980s. The situation was aggravated in 1986 when the river Dhund, an important water source for Bapugaon, went dry. Since then, both the quantity and quality of water started deteriorating.
![More than just physical rehabilitation of a water body, says Kalyan ji of Bapugaon](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/kalyan-ji-vdc-president-bapugaon1_1.jpg?itok=nFlR4AiS)
Water guards of Rajasthan
Posted on 20 Sep, 2015 07:29 PMWe were driving down the long desert road that runs parallel to the Indo-Pakistan border in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. There was little else to see except the surrounding sand dunes and desert grass.
![A taanka in the Thar desert](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/8531682290_df0d3dbdbe_b.jpg?itok=9YoYXnqx)