A debate on India's street food

Relocate sensibly

It has never been based on any scientific forest-specific study

It can be painless

Some civil servants have relocated forest dwellers successfully

Mega power projects hold the key

De-romanticizing green energy

Hope in jaywalkers

The dominant urban vision is deeply exclusionary

Tussle over land

Land acquisition Bill should take into account demands of those dependant on natural resources

Uttarakhand on bumpy recovery road

The state needs stringent town planning and environment assessment to prevent disasters

It’s not just about a good holiday

Making ecotourism work for all stakeholders requires a new vision

Are all environment lovers environmentalists?

Monkey relocation plan: Urban bias?

Decoding the Niyamgiri verdict

Invasion of tiger reserve

Are religious pilgrimages only about faith and religion?

Colonial hangover persists

Forest Act Amendment Bill maintains the forest department as the supreme controlling agency

Farms in cities

A case for urban agriculture in India

Tehri: is it curtains?

The beginning of submergence of Tehri also marked the drowning of anti-dam sentiments. Any strong protest was conspicuous by its absence. Does …

Chekhov's hell Sakhalin faces ravages of oil majors

The missing public

Rainforest route to clean economy

Kyotos successor should put an economic value to rainforests. A recent treaty shows how

Investment trick

How ecologically damaging projects are perpetuating a fallacy

Non-monetary indicator of poverty

Our policy makers should move away from the income criterion for estimating poverty and take cognisance of other indicators

This DROUGHT is sponsored by Govt. of India

Who is really behind our water problems?

Cipla's bitter pill for MNCs

Several eyebrows have been raised over the Cipla offer to supply anti- aids drugs at one-third the current price to developing countries like …

Bush discards green

US President George Bush calls for a steep hike in the production of oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy and drilling for oil and gas in Alaska

Coming out of coma

A decline in its funds and erosion in its mandate have made the United Nations Environment Programme virtually ineffective. Bharat H Desai looks …

Gujarat faces forced land aquisition in name of industrialisation