Linking Rivers, Unlinking Lives!
Last month, adivasi protests in Madhya Pradesh made headlines. Their demonstrations progressed from Chita, Mitti, Jal and Phansi satyagraha – lying on funeral pyres, smearing mud on their bodies, submerging...
Predictable Floods, Avoidable Disaster: Assam 2026
As floodwaters swallowed homes and highways across Assam in July 2026, Chief Minister Himanta Sarma pointed to a cloudburst in neighbouring Nagaland as a key trigger for the disaster. While...
The Little Boy Rings the Warning Bell
It was predicted that India will experience below-average rainfalls this monsoon. The June rainfalls have already proved this, July too has followed the same trend. Inadequate rainfall has far-reaching consequences....
Google-Adani Break Ground In Vizag
“We invite the whole world’s data to reside in India.” PM Narendra Modi said recently, pitching the country as a global data hub ahead of the India AI Impact Summit...
The Class Struggle in Environmentalism
On June 5th, students from All India Students Association (AISA) held a flash demonstration at Lal Bagh on the occasion of World Environment Day. They highlighted key environmental issues in...
The Nicobar Project: Genocide Disguised as Development
The Andaman & Nicobar (A&N) islands are home to multiple indigenous communities that have lived there for centuries. Some communities have particularly small populations and are isolated from the rest...
On Bengaluru Floods, its Cause and Effect
The recent deaths during the Bengaluru rains once again exposed the brutal reality of urban flooding in India’s ‘Silicon Valley’. In April 2026, heavy rains led to the collapse of...
Climate, Catastrophes, and the Corporates!
Long gone is the time when climate disasters were being predicted for the future! Every ‘brink of climate catastrophe’ sign gets passed, and new warnings, more glaring and desperate, appear....
Defending the Jal-Jangal-Jameen of Sijimali
For over three years now, thousands of adivasi and dalit villagers in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts in Odisha have been protesting the proposed bauxite mining project contract granted to Vedanta...
The Nicobar Project: Ecocide Disguised as Economy
Earlier in February, the National Green Tribunal dismissed a petition filed against the Nicobar Project on grounds of “considering the strategic importance of the project". Further it found that ‘adequate...