Machines Replace Hands

Sugarcane cutters lose work as mills mechanise. Lata Waghmar was 6 months pregnant when she cut her last bundle of sugarcane in Beed, Maharashtra. She...

Ken-Betwa: Water for Some, Loss for Others

Adivasi resistance grows. In Dadhan village, Madhya Pradesh, Adivasis are protesting the Ken-Betwa river linking project.

Politics Without Dignity

Tamil Nadu’s discourse turns personal. A remark by Leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, Udhayanidhi Stalin, during a Cauvery protest in Th...

Build Fast, Build Green

Andhra Pradesh’s Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department is trying to change its image from a "tree guard fee" bureaucracy to a tech...

Year Back, Life Lost

On August 12, 2026, Michi Marpu, a 20-year-old B.Tech student from Arunachal Pradesh, was found dead in his hostel room at Mar Athanasius College, Kot...

Rat-Hole Deaths: Policy Vacuum

The Meghalaya High Court committee has flagged that the state has failed to close rat-hole coal mines despite NGT’s 2014 ban. 45 deaths in East Jainti...

Shipwreck Without a Wave

On May 25, 2025, container ship MSC Elsa 3 sank off Kerala with 24 containers. Initial fears: oil spill, ecological disaster for Lakshadweep. A study ...

Yellow Water, Red Alert

Groundwater crisis in Uttar Pradesh. Patches of fluorescent green-yellow water in Fatehpur, Kanpur Dehat, and Kanpur Nagar are not a chemical experime...

Rehearsal for the 80th Independence Day

Delhi's historic Red Fort is once again being decked up in preparation for the grand celebration of the nation's biggest national festival—Independenc...