Room in our hearts, for the river in our city
A thoughtful reworking of the river will mean letting the river be
Tag Archives: Environment
Pune floods not natural: Will environment consultants own up?
Instead of repeatedly failing in attempting to build livable cities and making a mess of the environment, it is worth addressing the real needs of the rural populations desperately seeking to move out, deserting villages, orphaning farms and abandoning traditional occupations.
4 Maps and a prophecy
All 3 pillars that sustain life in India ; of Land availability, water availability and clean air availability are crumbling and crumbling fast. If the situation continues unabated for some more years we may see a start of population collapse and/or mass migration as a nature’s way of correcting balance.
World Environment day: Clean the river Ganga or loose Ganga Dolphins!
The case of Ganga river dolphins stand apart because of two reasons one, it is the national water animal of India and second, its conservation being directly related to Cleaning of river Ganga.
A plate full of agendas for the new government
The new government needs to act on a war footing and identify priorities immediately after inception. The economy, education, health, agriculture and unemployment will form the barometer to evaluate the next government.
The sparks stand neglected
The issues of communalism, criminalization of politics and other spheres of life, regionalism, poverty, hunger, homelessness and all the others need to be taken up for their solutions and resolutions.
Kerala’s hour of tragedy – after rescue, time to step back and think
The crisis in Kerala and the impact it would have on its people in the aftermath of the floods