Bundelkhand’s goats dying due to mysterious disease

The animals are the only hope of livelihood for the region’s drought-affected farmers

Drought causes Bundelkhand’s farmers to turn defaulters

In Uttar Pradesh’s portion of the Bundelkhand region, farmers’ lands are being auctioned due to their inability to pay loans

Gaushala of a different kind: saving cattle in Bundelkhand

Chowka village in Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh, part of drought-stricken Bundelkhand houses a unique cow shelter (Gaushala). It takes care of …

Buxwaha: Has India’s government not learnt lessons from COVID-19?

What development can be achieved by wrecking an ecosystem on which the poorest depend?

Drought-prone Banda district awaits the shower of poll promises

Poverty, hunger and deprivation plaguing the Bundelkhand region hardly become a poll issue

Avartanasheel Kheti: Bundelkhand Diaries

A farmer in Uttar Pradesh's drought-prone Bundelkhand region demonstrates the benefits of mixed cropping

Buxwaha diamond mining project will make Bundelkhand’s water scarcity worse: Experts

The water requirement for the Bunder mine and ore processing plant is about 5.9 million cubic meters in a year

Children worst sufferers in drought-hit areas, says Satyarthi

According to the Nobel Laureate, 163 million children are living in severe drought-affected areas of the country

Bundelkhand: drought, miseries and hope

What needs to be done to overcome environmental challenges of the region

Loss of a legacy: Mahoba’s Desawari variety betel leaf could disappear in three to four years; here is why

Extreme weather events, rising input costs have made betel leaf cultivation unviable in Mahoba, nearly destroying its unique Desawari variety …

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Uttar Pradesh: drought of solutions to a flood of challenges

Poor health infrastructure, energy poverty and agrarian crisis are jostling each other to garner attention of new government

Uttar Pradesh plans its 4th tiger reserve in Bundelkhand

Ranipur Wildlife Sanctuary in Chitrakoot district has no tigers of its own; but pugmarks are frequently seen as tigers from nearby Panna frequent it

Bundelkhand's dalit women join hands to drought-proof their villages

96 women-led pani panchayats take over water resource management

Harnessing people’s power for climate action

As people join hands to increase awareness on climate change and call for action to reduce its impacts, we need to vouch for local solutions that …

First drought, then floods: is this an extreme weather event?

After an excruciating drought, several states of India have reported excess rainfall this monsoon. Climate change may have a role to play in …

Community health workers on COVID-19 frontlines: Why policies need to be gender-sensitive

From wages to travel, women community health workers had a harder time carrying out COVID-19 duties in Bundelkhand, according to a survey 

In-depth coverage: Drought, but why

Drought now affects people across classes. India needs a new strategy for disaster management

Death on mounds of a bumper crop

As corruption hijacks procurement centres in Bundelkhand, farmers prefer suicide to a debt trap. Richard Mahapatra reports from Uttar Pradesh …

Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

Remains of the day

Fight over regional resources drive demand for new states

Linguistic and cultural identity, which defined state boundaries in the initial years after Independence, take secondary place

Double trouble in Bundelkhand

Chandauli, Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh

Security ring: How MGNREGA rejuvenated tanks of a Tikamgarh village

A network of 55 tanks that get filled up one after the other when it rains, has cured this village of droughts