Of pseudo-sangams and de-linking of rivers

How Madhya Pradesh government is exploiting religious sentiments to trump common sense in water management and project the chief minister as a …

An ordeal by water

Loneliness of Narmada Human

Thirty years on, it remains the only fossil of early humans found on the subcontinent

Down with the reservoir

Submerged in rhetoric

Narmada evokes emotions, not negotiation

New rules for secrecy

Critics have condemned the World Bank's new information policy, as a mockery of the basic rules of informed public debate and environmental …

Wish upon a lake

Will Kalpasar quench Saurashtra's thirst?

No need to be neutral

NEW DELHI, August 28, 2003. At a press conference, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patekar said that the NBA would support candidates …

Watershed ruling on Narmada

The Supreme Court has washed aside an ambiguous Review Committee Report and ordered fresh investigations

A radical new order for living well

India is not in synch with G77's new declaration for development that is in harmony with nature and inclusive for all its peoples

Net gain

Villagers around Tawa reservoir in Madhya Pradesh are finally allowed to retain fishing rights

SSP falls prey to political machinations

Thirty years of planning, 15 years of construction, ten years of promises and Rs 15,000 crore later, the Sardar Sarovar Project is finally …

907 km from parliament

In the past two months, India has revisited its most contested dam, the Sardar Sarovar Project. While people affected by it in Madhya Pradesh …

The idea of corruption

Age of dissent

Six villages in Madhya Pradesh reject Centre’s proposal to declare their forest a wildlife sanctuary

Tryst with rain

Following the monsoon failure of 1999-2000, two states - Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh - launched crash programmes to encourage water harvesting. An …

Rivers' fury

Out of catch

Bargi reservoir no longer has enough fish stock. Is it because fishers have been kept out of its management?

Taking the lead

Narmada, Bhopal are issues of democracy, fair deals

Robbed of water

Gujarat farmers set to lose water from the Narmada canal network

We need not have gone to the World Bank

India may have compromised her sovereignty over the Narmada issue

Wanted: an independent appeals institution

If the World Bank does not withdraw from the Narmada dam, it will undermine the credibility it gained from setting up the review team. US NGOs …

The contours of repression

The government has consistently steamrolled opposition to the Sardar Sarovar project

Disappointing and poorly done

There is no merit in the Morse committee's philosophy which can be summed up as 'do nothing till you've done everything'