What we desperately close our mind to is once again becoming pronounced ever more clearly: climate change is here; it is already bringing devastating extreme weather events; and it will become wors

The country needs a financial model that can give the poor access to expensive power

We were standing in the only street of a small village called Mohda. Located in the forested region of Chhattisgarh, the village had no access to roads and markets. The women of the village surrounded me.

In Goa, mines are closed.

The rupee has crashed, growth is down and there is panic that the India story may be over or, at least, seriously dented.

The tragic episode in a school in Bihar, where 23 children died because of contaminated food, is unacceptable.

The outrage over the suspension of Durga Shakti Nagpal, an IAS officer who was simply doing her job by checking illegal mining of sand along the rivers of Uttar Pradesh, has highlighted a crucial i

The Himalayan region has seen unchecked construction activity, illegal mining, unscientific road building and hydropower projects built next to each other

The floods in the Himalayas have been ferocious and deadly. The final body count could run into several thousands. There is no clear estimate of the number of villages wiped out, property destroyed, roads washed away and hydropower projects damaged in the mountain state of Uttarakhand.