Highlights from the issue

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Sunita Narain’s Desk

Yamuna needs more than money
Illustration: Yogendra Anand/CSE

Cleaning the Yamuna needs more than money

The great farm hustle

Illustrations: Yogendra Anand/CSE

A forensic dive into India’s agroforestry carbon projects that are fast emerging as a win-win strategy to mitigate climate change and improve farmers’ income

Stem the rot

At Muzaffarnagar and other districts of western Uttar Pradesh, several farmers have reported that their sugarcane crops are infected by red rot. (Right) Sudheer Choudhary, a farmer from Nangla Mubarik village in Muzaffarnagar, shows the reddish discolouration of the internal tissues of an infected cane stalk
At Muzaffarnagar and other districts of western Uttar Pradesh, several farmers have reported that their sugarcane crops are infected by red rot. (Right) Sudheer Choudhary, a farmer from Nangla Mubarik village in Muzaffarnagar, shows the reddish discolouration of the internal tissues of an infected cane stalkPhotographs: Shagun

A fungal disease has hit the most widely sown sugarcane variety in Uttar Pradesh, threatening the country’s sugar production

Urban trap

A threat to local self-governance
Photograph: Himanshu Meena

Several villages across India are protesting against the decision to change their status to towns

Mythos of ancient India’s scientific excellence

The mythos of ancient India’s scientific excellence
Illustration: Anand/CSE

Policymakers are obsessed by a fuddled idea of resurrecting a glorious civilisational past, and even IITs have fallen in line

Pandemic’s long shadow

Pandemic’s long shadow
Sample collection in the walled city of Ahmedabad Photo: iStock

Long COVID grips over 400 million people now. It could well be one of the prominent reasons for morbidity in the world

A fantastical lens

Illustration: Yogendra Anand

Gigi Ganguly’s Biopeculiar is a laudable attempt to carve a space for speculative climate fiction within Indian literature

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