International cooperation in the protection of endangered species can be built on a totally different set of principles rather than trade bans

Indians probably never cared much for centralised governance systems. History is full of examples from the days of Kautilya when rulers stabbed each other in the back for petty gains

There is an urgent need for a global environmental watchdog alerting the global civil society to the designs of our governments

I have often argued that there is no village in India which cannot meet its drinking water needs if it adopts the kundi technology developed by the people of Rajasthan s Thar desert

Chidambaram has given a thrust to industrial development. But by failing to balance this development with environmental concerns, he has cooked the goose of millions

The answer to the whole issue of murky rivers lies in preventing their pollution, rather than polluting them first and then treating the raw river water for drinking purposes

Corruption, whether the high level variety or its more pervasive low level counterpart, is related to the lack of transparency and accountability in the governance system

I see two objectives for urban planning in India: one, environmental sustainability and two, public participation in this planning