How to love farmers-the Modi way

Like its other policies, the BJP government's Land Acquisition Ordinance favours industry at the cost of farmers

Leaving the farmer in his agony

The BJP government is set on introducing policies which will deepen the agrarian crisis instead of reviving the rural economy

Land Bill: public mandate used to push private interests

Degree of commerce

Vedanta gets tracts of thorium-rich land along the Orissa coast for a university. Allegations fly

Acquisition made easy

Land grab fallout

Scramble to buy land in foreign countries to grow more food leaves more people hungry

Nuclear power at the cost of livelihood

Pay and take

A High Powered Committee on efficient allocation of natural resources and telecom spectrum puts market above people

Fancy wall for Sundarbans

Government starts building massive embankments on the fragile delta using untested technology. Experts say the project benefits contractors, …

Curse of limestone

Farmers from 12 Rajasthan villages refuse to part with fertile land for cement companies

How natural resources doomed UPA

Management of natural resources will be the toughest job for the new government

BPL millionaires

Industrial houses use tribals as fronts to amass tribal land in Chhattisgarh

La farce

Desperate for Expressway

Uttar Pradesh is set to begin work on its ambitious expressway along the Upper Ganga Canal, turning a blind eye to environmental concerns and …

Sundarbans at risk

Bangladesh-India power plant can severely affect the mangrove forest, say environmentalists

Desperate for dam

Government skews facts to plan a project in Rajasthan that will displace 100,000 people

1,620.361 ha of discontent

Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are …

The last mayor of Kathmandu

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

Mango resistance

Farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s mango belt are clear they will not allow Lucknow’s solid waste facility on their dashehari land

Tiger reserved

Tiger tourism booms without proper regulation; new guidelines attempt to contain damage

Common concerns

As the commons come under increasing assault, academics, practitioners and policymakers come together to devise ways to protect shared resources

Lavasa: Dream for one, nightmare for many

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava finds how people affected by Lavasa are coping with the destruction it has caused

This is what Lavasa looks like

POSCO, a better tomorrow?

Sayantan Bera captures the mood at Jagatsinghpur, Odisha (Photos from June 16 and 17)

People's power

Farmers in Chhattisgarh's coal-rich Gare village have floated a company to assert their rights over natural resources and resist land acquisiton …