BANGALORE waking up

There is a need for better communication between the government and the people

Cant miss the bus

Have technology, will survive

A green agenda based on the paradigm of pollution prevention can rescue the small-scale industry

Mere plans

Government proposes. Industry disposes. Programmes for cleaning up have very largely gone by the wayside

The small big polluter

Resource crunch and poor regulatory processes have made small-scale industries the pariahs of India's environment

Kolkata’s hellhole

Healers in arms

The conflict between allopathy and homeopathy is an old one

Smoke laws first enacted in city of joy

Because of its political importance in the British empire, Calcutta was one of the first cities to regulate smoke emissions. But legislation …

Give us today our daily threat

What about privatisation, then?

CAMPAIGN

The ups and downs of a science city

During the Raj, science flourished in Calcutta. But the city's fortunes changed drastically because of warped policies

Red alert in the east

Real estate developers and government agencies are devouring the wetlands in communist-ruled Calcutta

Muckraking

Calcutta comes up with the "most efficient and ecologically benign method" of re-using municipal waste and sewage

At a tangent

In the melee over moving Kolkata's tanneries to a new site, the initiative to tackle pollution has been nearly lost sight of. The Supreme Court …

Kolkata's desi soft drink

The US beverage giants shell out billions to pop out punch-lines, and repackage Shah Rukh Khan to counter the repackaged Aamir Khan and vice-versa.…

A photo exhibition transcending borders

Ecologically subsidised city

Kolkata's ecosystem can educate one about living creatively with nature

Cricket emission levels and smokescreens

A new study shows it is not just English cricketers who are manipulatin4data for their benefit - the ministry of environment, too, is playing a …

The efficient way of looking at waste disposal

Urban waste will cease to be a problem if it is treated as a resource rather than refuse from consumption, which requires disposal.

Research on thin ice

Lack of coherent research on the melting Gangotri glacier spells disaster

Are some humans more equal?

A recent study suggests that poor nations will have to do with more arsenic in water. A rebuttal by the arsenic and medical group, School of …

The Ice Story

Amit Shanker talks about a random photograph that helped him reveal how Americans kept British cool.

When homemakers unite

Housewives in Kolkata move the court against the irresponsible and negligent functioning of factories in their area

The anatomy of congestion

Travel today is relatively faster, and people across the world are travelling more than ever before. But at a giant cost: urban roads are choked …