An eternal life free of sins” is the promise that comes attached with the magnificent occasion of Kumbh Mela. The 2019 Ardh Kumbh that takes pla...
Manual scavengers get under-reported
States resort to under-reporting of manual scavengers in the final verification stage The Centre has identified 54,929 people across 170 selected dist...
No water in the rice bowl
Nikhil Bagdi has attempted suicide twice in the past one month. Fortunately, his neighbours came to his rescue whenever he tried to end his life by ha...
A future without water?
Sikri is a small village that lies 65 km north-west of Bharatpur on the Alwar road. The village used to depend on a traditional irrigation system that...
The paradox of India’s water problems
The 2018 floods in the Indian state of Kerala highlight an enduring paradox within the country’s water problems. Even as some parts of the country dea...
Antibiotic use in livestock and superbug risk
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is on the rise globally with the threat more severe in developing countries such as India. Antimicrobial resistance occ...
Why floodplains need to be protected
The Kerala flood of 2018 was 30 percent less intense than that of 1924 deluge, the biggest in Kerala’s history. Yet it caused a huge loss of lives, pr...
Footwear industry pollutes, villagers put their foot down
As per the regional plan 2021 chalked out by the national capital regional planning board in 2005, Bahadurgarh, a small town in Haryana is a part of t...
Simplifying defluoridation
Estimates suggest that about 10 million Indians are affected by fluorosis, a sickness associated with the consumption of increased concentrations of f...
Toxins on our plate
“The recent scare due to the detection of formalin-laced fish across Goa, Kerala, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Meghalaya points to a link between wate...