Environment

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DTE Staff

The chronicler reaffirms

Sunita Narain on Down To Earth's journey so far and its responsibility towards the planet

Odes to migration

By poets Shahbaz Rizvi, Poonam Arora, Kedar Mishra and Nilim Kumar

Farm folklore

Babulal Dahiya, a litterateur and expert in folk traditions, on oral storytelling that documents farm practices

Feelings die with language

What happens to the environment when a language dies? Anvita Abbi, scholar of minority languages, offers an answer

Conservation as a literary leitmotif

Writer, journalist and scholar Arup Kumar Dutta on realistic adventure novels and how they can shape children's perceptions about environmental and conservation issues

Poetry and political ecology in Palestine

Book editor Chhavi Mathur on the attempt by Palestinian poets and writers to reassert their relationship with the war-ravaged ecology and landscape

Rebirth of coexistence

Educator, filmmaker and writer Neera Jalchhatri on the portrayal of nature in cinematic screen