Executive Director - Research and Advocacy and head of the air pollution and clean transportation programme, campaigns for clean air and public health, Centre for Science and Environment.
A car free day keeps the chocking away
Delhi is reeling under a worse polluted winter than 2014. The odd-even formula empowers people to take the first step out of the gas chamber
Why odd-even system can bring back the glory of bus transport
One can call it environmental injustice or incentive for pollution, public bus transport is more taxed than private vehicles
Science and politics of car pollution
Why are our policy makers and scientists ignoring public health risks from combustion sources and raising dust over dust pollution to blind …
European scientists press alarm bell on ill effects of diesel cars
A group of 24 scientists from 12 research and scientific organisations across Europe and the US have issued an open letter to sensitise the …
“Don’t touch my car” syndrome at cost of our health
It is ironical that the city has paced up action on commercial and public transport vehicles in the city – trucks, buses, autos and taxis &…
Does Volkswagen fraud signal death of diesel?
Making diesel vehicles clean, powerful and fuel-efficient is no easy task, and the Volkswagen cheating case has exposed this. This should act as …
Volkswagen fraud puts spanner on clean diesel route
The scam has exposed gaps in emissions regulations across regions. India will have to speed up its technology roadmap to clean up diesel and fix …
Why car-free days in Gurgaon must gather momentum
The vehicle ownership in the city is among the highest in the country, leading to air pollution
Change the mindset from ‘last mile’ to ‘first mile’
Alaknanda and Chittaranjan Park in South Delhi epitomise everything that is wrong with urban mobility in India—a deluge of private cars …
Demand Nirbhaya—fearless—cities
Catalysing safe design for public spaces should be among the top priorities to make cities safe for women, children and elderly
Short-lived pollutants: the other part of climate agenda
CO2 mitigation has to be conjoined with methane and black carbon mitigation to keep temperature rise below 2°C
Aam aadmi: many promises to keep
There is a new electoral mind embedded deep in the social layers of Delhi that city’s politics cannot ignore anymore
The ultimate justice
By asking lawyers to cycle to work to resolve Delhi’s endemic parking and traffic woes, the Chief Justice of India has shown the way. The …
NaMo budget on transport and pollution: Green expectations - Dashed hopes
NDAÔÇÖs maiden budget upholds and supports UPAII blunders to protect the automobile industry while ignoring the perils of …
Paying with lives for free parking
Blood bath over parking has not influenced the politics of the city to deliver on the right principles
Mr Chidambaram, show some courage to win votes
Excise cut for all types of vehicles, especially fuel-guzzling SUVs, undermines earlier UPA decisions in public interest
Smog and health of aam aadmi
The mandate is clear. Delhi will have to fulfill the 12th Five Year Plan target of meeting the ambient air quality standards by the end of the …
What is Aam Aadmi Party’s new deal on transport?
There are dangers in ignoring the demand for collective dignity on roads and in pandering to the arrogance of cars. Hope AAP will steer the …
Delhi smog is back
Cocktail of pollutants and severe smog episodes can be deadly in Delhi and NCR even as Delhi government delays finalising air quality index
Dangers of letting cars dictate city design
If any other cause was responsible for so many deaths and injuries as we see on our roads it would have been a state of emergency
Air pollution is group 1 carcinogen, says WHO agency
Our cities urgently need action plan to meet clean air targets, given the high level of air pollution and increased incidence of lung cancer
Axe subsidy, not the bus
Supreme Court order upholds diesel price hike for bus corporations, but ignores the subsidy still enjoyed by cars, SUVs. What happens to the …
Profitable exit
Reliance abandons the first public-private partnership in Metro transport. Time to revise rules
Hybrid buses: green steps in dark shadows
The pilot project on electric, hybrid buses for public transport looks more like a friendly nudge to industry to find 'real business' for a …