Political
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra in Rajasthan - Different faces of goodness
Posted on 21 Oct, 2012 06:33 PMThe author with an infant in village Sangod, Kota
Delhi’s waste conflict – A paper in the Economic and Political Weekly
Posted on 20 Oct, 2012 05:26 PMThe commentary in Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) begins by discussing the policy shift in solid waste management that involves the privatisation of certain aspects of the system, such as the incineration of waste, but more importantly, it represents a comprehensive and holistic transformation in which the entire system becomes in
India’s rivers are drying, fresh water biodiversity being destroyed, and people seriously threatened from mega hydro-electric projects - Can CBD help?
Posted on 19 Oct, 2012 08:28 PMTwenty years after ratifying the Convention on Biological Diversity, and ten years after promulgating the Biological Diversity Act, India continues to use doublespeak in dealing with its rivers and their biodiversity
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra in Madhya Pradesh -Two schools, two toilets, one behaviour
Posted on 19 Oct, 2012 06:49 PMAs the sanitation and hygiene campaign (Nirmal Bharat Yatra) moved from Maharastra to Madhya Pradesh, our halt on the outskirts of Indore brought us face-to-face with grim realities. Two schools that I visited had structures that in some government file were passed off as toilets.
Comprehensive guidelines for tiger conservation and tourism as provided in the Wild Life Protection Act (1972)- A document by National Tiger Conservation Authority, Ministry of Environment and Forest
Posted on 19 Oct, 2012 04:17 PMThis document is a guideline provided by the National Tiger Conservation Authority, under the Ministry of Environment and Forest. These guidelines are to be followed for the conservation of tigers in buffer and core area of tiger reserves.
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra at Indore - An enriching experience
Posted on 19 Oct, 2012 01:43 AMOur stay in Indore was for ten days but I personally didn’t get bored because there was so much to do. Whenever we got the time, we ran to Indore City which had a lot of amazing things to do.
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra at Wardha - Bappu’s India - Mahatma Gandhi’s model of a toilet
Posted on 19 Oct, 2012 12:35 AMAs I get down from the auto that I hired for the day to take me from my hotel in Wardha to Mahatma Gandhi's ashram where he spent the last days of his life, I wasn't quite prepared for what lay ahead of me and the feelings that would hit me from then on.
Video on how to vermi-compost in your apartment- A webisode in Chai with Lakshmi
Posted on 18 Oct, 2012 06:51 PMIndia’s economic policies are destroying biodiversity and livelihoods: Commitments under CBD are not being met, says a statement issued by Indian civil society organizations
Posted on 18 Oct, 2012 05:45 PMThe blind pursuit of economic growth is coming at massive costs, both to natural ecosystems and to hundreds of millions of ecosystem-dependent people, who are being affected by mining, dams, power plants, ports, industries, and other such projects.
Good morning Mumbai - A film on sanitation by Rajesh Thakare and Troy Vasanth - National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
Posted on 18 Oct, 2012 04:25 PMThis film humorously depicts the day to day hurdles that the poor have to overcome to meet their basic needs such as water and sanitation and the circumstances that force them to resort to poor sanitation related behaviour such as open defecation.