Reportage Mere infrastructure can’t solve water crisis. Focus should shift to ‘where’ the water is coming from In the water sector, the focus on fixing demand and supply is taking us away from the real problem: Unnoticed...
Reportage Kaimur Tiger Reserve: With Bihar elections around the corner, the state government has a tiger by the tail The proposed tiger reserve in Kaimur, Bihar, is expected to displace about 50,000 tribal people in 108 villages, and has...
NEWS ETC What makes a child-friendly city? Redesigning safer and healthier urban spaces for young people Up to 500 kids die daily in road accidents around the world. The need is to meet the special needs...
Reportage Men protesting electrocution of a teenage boy flee Uttar Pradesh village as cops clamp down Three people have been arrested and a case registered against 75 villagers, including 35 women, in Jhinjholi gram panchayat. The...
Reportage Trouble in Paradise: A spike in human-wildlife encounters in Kashmir Between 2006 and 2019, at least 229 people were killed and 3,390 injured in Kashmir region of the Union Territory...
Reportage While the floods have abated in Uttar Pradesh, flood waters continue to wreak havoc in hundreds of villages About 900 villages in Uttar Pradesh are water-logged. In the last three months, standing crops have been destroyed, leaving farmers...
Columns Floods 2020: The need for critical engagement with floods in India This year’s monsoon has brought floods to several states of the country. Each region has a different typology of floods...
Columns Conflict in Odisha’s forests leaves both elephants and humans in grief In Keonjhar district, the mining hub of Odisha, about 530 villages are affected by human-elephant conflict. Casualities and house damages...
Reportage Integrating blue, green and grey water infrastructure to manage urban floods Exploring eco-friendly infrastructure alternatives to manage recurring cases of urban flooding events across Indian cities that will bring urban centres...
Reportage Reinventing urban waterfronts in Indian cities: Five ideas to step-up the way forward In India, every urban waterfront development project is focused on the construction, landscaping and beautification. There is limited consideration of...
