Living the report

In March 2004, a group of Dalit women from Uttar Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region stood on a stage in a plush Delhi auditorium.

Wedding vows

They know little of the Copenhagen slugfest, but a couple in a Uttar Pradesh village decided to do their bit to check climate change. Sangam Singh and Mandvi Singh of Matond village in UP’s Banda district solemnized their marriage with a pledge to spread the message of climate change mitigation.

Double trouble in Bundelkhand

The region's topography and neglect of traditional tanks means droughts turn into floods Bundelkahand's five-year drought is well-known, so people were really surprised when they heard the news about floods in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district in June. True, the rains came early, but does it take only a week's rain to turn drought into floods? The reasons why drought could turn so soon into flood are mainly four.