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.

The unsustainable city

The debates, diatribes and rhetoric over the concept of sustainable cities have all been met with the resounding illogic of warped priorities: …

City scan

Will the future city, marked by responsible governance and a concerned citizenry, be able to address the problems dogging the world's urban centres?

Court questions sealing relief law

Delhi to explain how the law is relevant to the Capital’s planned development

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

Public spaces make cities

Street activities work as ‘eyes on the street’, that keeps cities safe, and Jane Jacobs said create neighbourly environment. Public …

Land over nature

Cities are expanding indiscriminately across the globe, at the cost of rich biodiversity  

New light on water disinfection

With a simple modification, ordinary tubelights can be used to provide clean drinking water.

Uttarakhand on bumpy recovery road

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

Who messed it up?

Guwahati indicts poor settlers for flash floods, ignores damage on wetlands by construction work

Stranglehold on habitats

The urban explosion

Skyscrapers: bird's bane

CHILE

If only solutions were so simple

Relocating slums does not reduce pollution; it only increases human misery

One of the biggest threats to the environment - desertification, explained

At an ongoing global workshop on desertification, the Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan said desertification threatens 30% of India’s …

Grow your own herbs: Edible Routes

Edible Routes organised a workshop in New Delhi, where they explained and taught participants how to grow herbs and have your own kitchen garden. …

Official doublespeak stumps Udaipur villagers

An Udaipur NGO has been summoned to court because a community hall it helped the residents of Vasu village set up allegedly encroaches on …

Only males need apply

With an increasing number of joint forest management projects being implemented, it is vital that forest departments become more gender sensitive.…

Who will help her learn?

Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out …

City blues

THE DYNAMICS OF METROPOLITAN MANAGEMENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA·Edited by Jurgen Ruland·Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore

Silk route to success

With the launch of a sericulture project in Vidisha, a district in Madhya Pradesh, the lifestyle of the rural women undergoes a metamorphosis

Martyr and a court ruling

Wetlands in Howrah still ravaged by real estate