This time for Odisha: Hockey World Cup, investments surge. And culture?

In this 2-part series, Charudutta Panigrahi talks about what Odisha should do this year to march ahead on social development

For a greener future: Jharkhand needs a planned transition from coal

Jharkhand accounts for close to 300,000 individuals employed within the illegal coal mining industry

Utkal Diwas 2022: Odisha’s GDP and museums go together

Odisha’s musuems are cost centres. But they need to move to being profit centres. If they don’t have enough revenue surplus, our …

Black paddy, black lungs: How coal mining has wrought havoc in Odisha’s Sundergarh

Residents of Sundergarh grow black paddy,; their lungs are full of coal dust; their agriculture lands have been acquired for mining and the …

Moving away from coal: Livelihoods of Odisha’s mine workers need to be protected

At least half a million lives are associated with coal mining in Odisha

Closing the loop on COVID-19, wars and climate change: Maybe we were never that great

It is a strange situation waiting to happen: The attackers are aliens, but we have unleashed these aliens. We have welcomed zoonotic pathogens …

Why unbridled aquaculture in East Godavari district needs to be monitored

Impacts of aquaculture need to be assessed from a more comprehensive value-chain perspective instead of a narrow production focus

When do politicians get to think?

The people’s representative is facing a paradox: Of keeping away from people due to COVID-19. A good vision is needed to make good politics

India needs a freedom movement against non-performing officers

NPOs should be removed if the Union government’s schemes are to bear fruits 

We break indigenous societies and yet are scared of ‘them’

Two tribal rights activists urge civil society to protect indigenous families facing the onslaught of inhuman greed and extreme apathy

Odisha's mines may power the country, but what about its people?

Mining has not yielded commensurate dividends to life in Odisha

A plea for Odisha’s tribals affected by mining

As Odisha plans to auction its mines in the next few years, an Odia pleads for the communities to be affected the most, the state’s adivasis

Goa’s first white paper on livelihood can help in effective state planning

Prepared by Goa Livelihoods Forum, the paper calls for the state to achieve development in the lines of the United Nation’s sustainable …