On the trail of rampaging elephants
Down To Earth reporters visit human-elephant conflict zones and discover that affected people are increasingly venting their ire on forest staff …
Price hike: Bengal’s hot potato
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would do anything to check a price rise, even if that makes potatoes vanish or takes buses off the road
Life and times of Lado Sikaka
The forest will watch out for his children after he is long gone, believes a Dongria Kondh
Do we really need the bauxite from Niyamgiri?
Existing mines can meet India’s demand for the next thirty years, at levels three times our current consumption
God of small hills
Inside Niyamgiri range the Dongria Kondhs worship the forest hills as their spiritual sovereign
Two leaves and a bud, a tale of certain exotics
Sayantan Bera chronicles the simmering discontent in the picturesque tea gardens of Assam, Darjeeling
A hard rain’s falling
Sayantan Bera tells the story of a man and a state, paralysed inside the remote islands of Sundarbans
The great wetland grab
Guwahati allows construction on wetlands, but will not spare poor settlers on hills. A photo narrative by Sayantan Bera
“Come elections, our forests are looted”
Angry villagers from the hotbed of political violence told Sayantan Bera, the day a new government took oath in West Bengal
POSCO unplugged
Sayantan Bera travels to Jagatsinghpur in Odisha to find that villagers labeled ‘pro’ POSCO do not have a choice otherwise
POSCO, a better tomorrow?
Sayantan Bera captures the mood at Jagatsinghpur, Odisha (Photos from June 16 and 17)
.jpg "On the trail of rampaging elephants")
.jpg "Price hike: Bengal’s hot potato")
.jpg "Do we really need the bauxite from Niyamgiri?")
.jpg "“Come elections, our forests are looted”")
