Aditya Batra

Senior director board and funding at CSE, where he handles fundraising and partnerships

Forests Nepal Sewage Treatment … Energy River Pollution India Energy Policy Sri Lanka Health Effects Bagmati

Car-free Gurgaon, really?

It seemed more like a “no parking day” in the city

Tuesdays are pedestrian's day out in Bhutan

Central Thimpu becomes pedestrian zone on World Environment Day

'Clean environment has to be a fundamental right'

For more than four years now, Narayan Belbase, an environmental public interest lawyer, has been working towards facilitating and mainstreaming …

Forests for people

Newly democratic Bhutan pushes community forestry to tackle rural poverty

Lost in woods

Environmentalists see red over wildlife bill in Bangladesh

Bhattarai's power trip

Power, investments to be highlights of Nepal prime minister's first India visit

Darkling waters

The Bagmati loses its way in Kathmandu amid political vacuum and urban chaos

A revolution gone awry

Easy access to agro-chemicals in Sri Lanka blamed for public health scare

Nepal declares energy emergency

To generate 2,500 MW of electricity by 2016

Reaching for the sun

Micro-financed solar energy systems light up Bangladesh’s rural areas

‘Forests can’t survive without communities’

Nepal’s Forest Act of 1993, which allows communities to manage their forests, is admired and emulated by governments and movements across …

River restoration is not just an ecological act

Despite decades of restoration efforts by a rich ensemble of state-development actors, cultural heritage votaries and rights activists, the …

Major revamp of ICDS recommended

Inter-ministerial report calls for improving infrastructure and facilities at anganwadi centres

Bhutan: Pursuit of happiness

Karma Tshiteem is the secretary of the Gross National Happiness Commission, the novel name of Bhutan’s Planning Commission. He tells Aditya …

The last mayor of Kathmandu

Aditya Batra in conversation with Keshab Sthapit, a mayor famous for muscling his way to urban renewal

A civilisational loss

For more than two decades, Huta Ram Baidya has led the Save Bagmati River campaign. An affable, octogenarian activist and Nepal’s first …

Just like a forest

Analog forestry mimics a forest to create an economically productive and ecologically diverse landscape

Vignettes from Sri Lanka's cloud country

In Sri Lanka, organic farmers draw inspiration from endemic practices such as home gardens or analog forestry, and have also adapted ‘…

‘I’m always in the opposition’

Lawyer and activist, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, who is spearheading the battle against the thriving shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, speaks to …

When villages plug in

A Consumer movement is catching on in Nepal.Communities are extending the grid to villages.This threatens to undo the effort put in small-scale …

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