
Articles by Sarosh Bana
Born in Mumbai, India, Sarosh Bana did his higher studies in Bio-Dynamic Agriculture in Basel, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany.
In his journalistic career, Sarosh, who is the Executive Editor of the Business India fortnightly published out of Mumbai, he has written extensively on a range of issues, spanning Environment, Wildlife & Conservation, Defence & Security, Space, Energy & Power, Foreign Affairs, Economy, Politics, Policy, Poverty, Food & Agriculture, and Urban & Rural Development.
Starting his career with The Indian Express in 1980, Sarosh was India's first environment journalist, writing on this subject when environmental journalism had yet to become fashionable. That was also the time he founded a nongovernment organisation (NGO) called Forum for People-Oriented Water Utilisation that centre-staged the Narmada Dam issue and eventually led to the coalescence of the largest conglomeration of NGOs worldwide ranged against one single issue. Through his NGO, he also published a quarterly review and convened several national seminars on the subject of land and water resource utilisation.
Though much of his current writings are in Business India, he also writes for think tanks, specialised journals and foreign newspapers.


[Commentary] India needs to look at its heritage and replicable local efforts for water conservation
Special series
Wetland Champions
- [Commentary] India establishes the largest network of Ramsar Sites in South Asia
- [Commentary] Wetland champions: Promise from the grassroots
- The story of Jakkur lake sets an example for inclusive rejuvenation projects
- Welcome to Tsomgo lake: Please don’t litter

Environment And Health
- Brahmapuram fumes over waste
- Transgender activists highlight the impacts of climate change and environmental issues on the community
- Stubble burning is back, smothering north India with concerns for the upcoming winter
- Humans are contaminating Earth’s waterways with medicines, pharmaceutical ingredients

Almost Famous Species
- India garners international support to save two endangered freshwater turtles
- What protecting the slender loris could mean for forest communities in Tamil Nadu
- [Video] Hangul, the shy Kashmiri deer, is facing the threat of extinction as its habitat shrinks
- Identifying individual mugger crocodiles using drone technology to minimise conflicts

India's Iconic Landscapes
- Ain’t no mountain high enough: alien invasive plants increasing in higher elevations
- Unplanned, faulty buildings tremble under weather events in the fragile Himalayan regions
- Nourishing soils of Kashmir’s karewas crumble under infrastructure
- Shielding hijol, a floodplain tree, from climate impacts

Beyond Protected Areas
- Women take the wheel for safer tourism in Satpura Tiger Reserve
- Habitat preservation in the Western Ghats can help enhance biodiversity in the hotspot
- Climate change and catfight in the Himalayas: tigers, leopards venture into snow leopard land
- Mapping connectivity and human-elephant conflict in Karnataka

Conserving Agro-biodiversity
- Thirunelly’s seed festival celebrates traditional climate-resilient seeds and farm produce
- [Explainer] Why is 2023 the International Year of Millets? What do we achieve by celebrating such years?
- Nations adopt Global Biodiversity Framework amid concerns over watered-down targets
- [Commentary] A renewed CGIAR can better support South Asia to determine its food future

Just Transitions
- Incentives to boost demand, increase in e-buses in Tamil Nadu’s latest EV policy
- Electricity transition in India’s renewable-rich states needs to accelerate, says study
- [Interview] Ajay Kumar Rastogi on leading India’s first just transition task force
- Helping wildlife navigate road and railway infrastructure
