In a whitewashed country

We begin the new year with this piece on the ‘modern’ and 'traditional' from the Anil Agarwal reader (Vol.2) 

क्यों शुरू हुई थी डाउन टू अर्थ मैगजीन

मई 1992 में डाउन टू अर्थ के संस्थापक संपादक अनिल अग्रवाल द्वारा मैगजीन के पहले अंक के लिए लिखा गया संपादकीय

TV’s ‘pop politics’

January 2, 2018 was the 16th death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. His …

How to douse the flames

The challenge facing India today is in many ways the biggest challenge facing the entire world

Babri demolition: participatory efforts can douse the flames

Even 24 years after the demolition, courts and law makers have not been able to resolve the issue. Perhaps we can borrow the approach of …

टीवी की “पॉप” राजनीति

सेंटर फॉर साइंस एंड एनवायरमेंट और डाउन टू अर्थ के संस्थापक अनिल अग्रवाल की आज 19वीं पुण्यतिथि है। मास मीडिया का उनका आकलन आज ...

Global warming in an unequal world

The answer to the current dilemma in negotiations is to make emissions from every citizen of the world count equally

Bhopal: 38 years ago, while the world slept, its worst industrial disaster unfolded in the heart of India

Anil Agarwal, founder of Centre for Science and Environment and founder editor of Down To Earth, was in Bhopal immediately after the tragedy. …

अनिल अग्रवाल की आंखों-देखी : भोपाल गैस त्रासदी की वह भयानक रात

3 दिसंबर, 1984 को सुबह तीन बजे भोपाल में यूनियन कार्बाइड से निकलने वाली जहरीली गैस ने पूरे शहर को तबाह कर दिया था 

Consenting adults in a hot world

Since we are all humans, and all equal, the question comes down to whether in the process of climate negotiations we are going to act like a …

Remembering Anil Agarwal: India needs a Gobar Minister

Today is the death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, the founder of Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. He wrote this editorial …

Remembering Anil Agarwal — Forget Malthus: upside of population growth

Increasing population density can also lead to better community management of common property resources, if community property rights are …

बाबरी विध्वंस: भागीदारी के प्रयास से बुझ सकती हैं आग की लपटें

6 दिसंबर 1992 को बाबरी विध्वंस की घटना की प्रतिक्रियास्वरूप डाउन टू अर्थ के संस्थापक संपादक अनिल अग्रवाल द्वारा लिखा गया लेख

Why this magazine?

As we celebrate our 28th anniversary, here's looking back at the first-ever editorial by Anil Agarwal as DTE started its journey

भारत को एक गोबर मंत्री की जरूरत है

अनिल अग्रवाल सेंटर फॉर साइंस एंड एनवायरनमेंट और डाउन टू अर्थ पत्रिका के संस्थापक हैं। उनका 2 जनवरी, 2002 को निधन हो गया था। ...

माल्थस को छोड़िए: जनसंख्या- वृद्धि  का सकारात्मक पक्ष देखिए

अगर सामुदायिक संपत्ति के अधिकार को सही ढंग से परिभाषित किया जाए तो बढ़ती आबादी, बेहतर तरीके से उसका प्रबंधन कर सकती है - ...

Time to tell them off

Nobody needs a fair and effective treaty more than the South, but they arent getting it. They should tell the North to listen, or go home.

Sanitary insights

January 2, 2017, is the 15th death anniversary of Anil Agarwal, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment and Down To Earth. This year, …

What is Sustainable Development?

Sustainable development, the buzzword in environmental circles, is largely misunderstood. It can only come about in a society which can …

What's in a neem?

A lot, apparently. Neem -Azadirachta indica -and the I?roducts derived from it have traditionally been widely used for centuries, especially in …

One missed opportunity, 330 million drought-stricken Indians

We could have been drought-proof by 2010 had we only harvested rainwater. Sixteen years later, India's villages are paying the price

Small step, wrong direction

CDM ensures that the first step taken in Kyoto towards a climate change convention was actually in the wrong direction. The Kyoto Protocol, the '…

Silenced to death

The media and the government keep mum on pollution-cancer linkages and the abysmal medical help available in India against the menace

REVIVING WISDOM

Rainwater is abundant in India. So is its mismanagement. This has led to a human-made water scarcity. The only way to solve modern India's water …

To be healthy, wealthy and wise

...activists must fight for better prevention and health education