Eva Joly, EU parliamentarian from the French Green Party, is tipped to be the Presidential candidate of the Greens in the 2012 French Presidential election. She is popular for being the judge who took on corporate corruption seriously. She was in Nantes in France for French Green Party’s Summer School where she met Pradip Saha

In 2006, Slovenian president Janez Drnov?ek sent filmmaker and political activist Tomo Kriznar as a peace envoy to war-torn Darfur. US pressure cut the mission short . But Kriznar stayed on, uncovering an environmental aspect to the crisis. He talked to Pradip Saha about this lesser known aspect of the war. Edited excerpts:

In 2006, Nicholas Stern former chief economist, World Bank and advisor to the UK government, wrote about the economic threat from climate change in the Stern Report. He veers round to an uneasy balance between consumerism and and climate imperatives in a conversation with Pradip Saha and Mario D Souza

Veerbhadra Mishra heads the Sankat Mochan Foundation, an NGO at the forefront in trying to revive the Ganga's fortunes in Varanasi. A man who wears many hats -- head priest of the Sankat Mochan Temple, a former engineer, an activist -- Mishra tells Pradip Saha that faulty planning is what put paid to the Ganga Action Plan's (GAP's) first phase in Varanasi

Bangladesh jittery over India's river linking scheme

A recent festival of short films bombed -- by and large