Is India ready?

Effective social schemes need more than cash transfer

Food vs fuel

Bhutan’s experiments with happiness

The idyllic Buddhist kingdom believes that peace and happiness should take preference over material growth. In a world beset by inequities and …

Public private prank

Water riddles

Rain or no rain

What about privatisation, then?

Spring in a box

A village in Maharashtra solves its water crisis by building underground boxes to tap spring water

Dream stuck in pipeline

The Melamchi project promised to end Kathmandu’s acute water shortage. But 15 years later, it is nowhere near completion

Making water-excreta accounts

Grand distraction called river interlinking

How smart is a smart city?

Urban growth model needs reality check

I really have no problem with the World Bank

Pipe dreams

Fix what is broken

Corporation for Sustainable Development

A tale of two cities

The true cost of water

Grow food anywhere

With innovative use of space, people in cities are reclaiming their right to safe food

Model in a fix

Chhattisgarh's much appreciated public distribution scheme is falling apart due to corruption and mismanagement

From water to water

Biofuel good idea, bad practice

To sell a resource

Water. A resource whose scarcity and inefficient allocation gives enough cause for concern. A concern which could find a solution in the concept …

Natures own water purifiers

River banks are efficient water filters. Haridwar shows how to make most of them