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Top-down mindset bedevils draft river management bill
November 12, 2018
The Indian government is trying to give more powers to the centre to solve inter-state river disputes, but its draft bill fails to recognise realities and suffers from a bureaucratic approach
Review: An opening in the mountains
November 09, 2018
An anthology of writing from the eastern Himalayan region, edited by Namita Gokhale, provides a unique and powerful perspective on a region that is increasingly interconnected and open to the world
Saline land will drive people out of Sundarbans
November 08, 2018
The rise in sea levels due to climate change is likely to turn the soil more saline in large parts of the Sundarbans region in India and Bangladesh, making cultivation unviable and forcing mass migration
Tackling the great smog of India
November 07, 2018
Siddharth Singh, author of “The Great Smog of India”, speaks in an interview on the drivers of air pollution, the intersection of economics, transport and pollution, as well as what can be done
Hope and pumpkins along the Teesta
November 06, 2018
Pumpkin cultivation on sandbars has drawn hundreds and thousands out of extreme poverty in Bangladesh, and this change of cultivation patterns may pave the way for others as water flow in the Teesta declines
China looks to reform its meat production
November 05, 2018
The cull of hundreds of thousands of pigs in China calls for a re-think of food systems, writes Zhou Wanqing