Luna's law
The discovery of water will make it possible to set up a colony on the Moon. But will there be a repeat of the East India Company?
The colour my village was
A French artist has attempted to recreate pre-industrial systems of land management through his paintings. Has any Indian painter tried to do …
Maharashtra soft on Lavasa?
Yet to implement environment ministry’s order on the project
Rooted to earth
‘Modern buildings cannot breathe’
Kolkata-based architect Laurent Fournier tells how ceilings can float and why bamboo-reed-mud make more sense than brick-concrete-steel
An urban puzzle
India’s population and cities are set to double by 2030. Can it cope with the pressures?
A social force called water
The state is struggling to meet the rising water demand. It is time to learn from the days when people arranged their own water. In cities and in …
Green home
‘My mentor Laurie Baker’
BENNY KURIAKOSE began his architecture career in 1984. He was one of the privileged few who worked under the tutelage of Laurie Baker which …
Greenest of all
Model building design that helps save energy and money by exploiting the sun’s movement
Meltdown
Till a couple of decades ago Bangalore was a sleepy city -- running to the rhythm of old trading networks and retired people taking their evening …
Court questions sealing relief law
Delhi to explain how the law is relevant to the Capital’s planned development
Crisis of governance
People in urban scheduled areas suffer as Centre fails to legislate
Scrap Lavasa township: petition
Pune project does not have environmental clearance from Centre
Built to last
A Rajasthan village has cylindrical houses that help people cope with extreme weather events
The great wetland grab
Guwahati allows construction on wetlands, but will not spare poor settlers on hills. A photo narrative by Sayantan Bera
Fixing old houses on Himalaya
German architect Andre Alexander has been restoring old buildings in the Tibetan capital Lhasa for 15 years now. Over the past few years he has …
Familia risks
Greenhorn wisdom
Forest protection in a Midnapore village has created prosperity - and local heroes
Arctic without ice
Why the cheetah may never come back to India?
The year India became independent it also lost all its cheetahs. In 1947, India's last two Asiatic Cheetahs were shot dead in erstwhile princely …
Meet the Baigas
Baigas are a central Indian tribe who recently received habitat rights under the Forest Rights Act
Islands in the river
The insular but self-sufficient existence of the marine nomads inhabiting the islands that pepper the Brahmaputra river as it winds across …
Project brings cheap cement to the village
Narasimharaju's dream of providing inexpensive cement for rural use will come true when his plant starts production later this year.