How millets were displaced across Uttarakhand’s hillsides (and why we need to bring them back)
“Dal chawal. Aloo sabzi.” “Roti. Chawal. Aloo fry.” “Aloo paratha. Maggi.” In August last year, I spent nearly two weeks in Uttarakhand. For the most […]
Policy
Making Certification Mandatory for Organic Foods is Going to Hinder the Spread of Organic Farming in India
Government Must Make Organic Certification Accessible For All, Before Making it Mandatory – Other Better Ways of Weeding Out Fake Organic Should Be Adopted. With […]
By Hand: The Looms that can Lead India
The artisan weaving cotton textiles on the handloom has been unfairly relegated to a peripheral status in the textile industry. Not only does handloom still […]
Busting the Forest Myths: People as Part of the Solution
The long-held contention that rural forest communities are the prime culprits in tropical forest destruction is increasingly being discredited, as evidence mounts that the best […]
Paving the Way for Corporate Agriculture
With public sector investment drastically falling over the past few decades, agriculture was left to the mercy of the rain gods. Protecting every single grain […]
Blue Economy
We need a new economy that encourages entrepreneurs to bring to the market innovations inspired by the way ecosystems work and modelled on the blue […]
Flightless Travel
Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee set out on an adventure around the world by cargo ship, train and road to understand how people were responding […]
Trees are the Answer
An interview with Wangari Maathai For many years, before humanity became aware of the dangers of climate change, Wangari Maathai was advocating the planting of […]
Swaraj: A Deeper Freedom
In Hind Swaraj, Gandhi exhorts using ‘soul force’ as a means to seek ‘right livelihood’ – which is what real freedom is all about. Gandhi’s […]
Liberation Ecology
What keeps us creating, as societies, a world that we as individuals abhor, a world violating our deepest values and common sense? Why is poverty […]