From fighting for the protection of migratory birds in northeast India to the protection of the rights of mango farmers in western India, the duo of Ritwick Dutta and Rahul…
Telangana's gradual shift towards renewable energy-powered public transport system is resulting in savings worth millions and earning the state agencies plaudits from the public. Utilising clean energy, primarily solar, in…
Ramu Malto (name changed) is a member of Sauria Paharia, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) from Jharkhand. He would pride himself on the proximity to the historic Rajmahal hills,…
The shortage of coal and the possibility of large-scale power outages has been the core of intense discussions in India in recent weeks, even as the government has denied a…
On the last Monday of the monsoon month in September 2021, 48-year-old Gunawant Ramji Koli left for the Little Rann of Kutch (LRK) to place idols in a mud puddle.…
Parmeshwari Devi is a farmer who owns agricultural land in the Khunti district of Jharkhand. A few years ago, she would often lament that she was not able to fully…
Santosh Dash is a 35-year-old rickshaw driver in the temple town of Puri in Odisha. It is merely three months since he switched from his diesel-based auto-rickshaw to an electric…
The Brahmagiri hills, in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, are considered the origin of the Godavari River, India’s second-longest river. The foothills of the Brahmagiri are now a popular spot for real…
Rabi Bagdi, a man in his mid-30s who has a family of five to run, moves out of his home at Kabilpur village in West Bengal for work at a…
To mine or not to mine – that’s the question that seems to be looming over Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand forests. While the forests being pristine, rich in biodiversity and ecologically…
Prashant Kumar Chatar is an intermediate student from Dhanurjaypur panchayat, which is on the periphery of the Hadgarh Wildlife Sanctuary where an elephant corridor was identified by the Odisha government.…
On August 9, 2021, as the World's Indigenous People Day was being celebrated, hundreds of people from villages inside and on the periphery of the picturesque Karlapat Wildlife sanctuary in…
If India were to implement a net-zero target by 2050, an area of atleast about 65,000 square kilometres - equivalent to about half the size of the Indian state of…
In mid-2020, photographers, travel bloggers and youth thronged a hillock at Nijigarh Tapang (Khurda), just outside Odisha’s capital city, Bhubaneswar. They termed it as a hidden tourist site that had…
Chhattisgarh is home to some of India’s most precious forests but it is also an area rich in minerals such as iron ore. The race for extraction of these resources,…
The Durg forest division of Chhattisgarh has launched a large-scale reforestation programme, which aims to cover 2,500 acres of land, on the periphery of a limestone mining area owned by…
The under-utilisation of the country’s coal power reserves and the delays in execution or completion of power projects by power sector companies, could put India’s energy security at stake. In…
“The rule of mechanisation has come, it will snatch away the work from every hand, wake up workers and farmers. There is unemployment, it will grow, alas the working people…
The oran (sacred grove) is an integral part of Rajasthan’s culture. Rich in biodiversity and usually with water bodies within, orans are akin to oases in the dry state. The…
The Goa government, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), recently passed the Goa Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) Bill, 2021 during the legislative assembly’s monsoon session. The bill that enables…
