Perspectives

Policy Edits.

Policy Editorials.

That kind of kind: Reflections on Jantar Mantar

The sit-in was like a prolonged chess game, where one player sacrifices a pawn to save the king, and to diffuse the pressure from one part of the board move to another. It worked, at least for the moment.

Tracing India’s long journey of Forest Rights in India

Protecting forests and protecting the rights of forest-dependent communities are not necessarily opposing goals.

Crime content on social media threatens wildlife safety

Experts recommend amendments to the existing wildlife law, training forest department personnel, holding social media companies accountable and creating public awareness.

AVOIDING THE FATAL TEMPTATIONS OF A SUCCESSFUL PROTEST

One basic problem of revolutionary movements has been the lack of ‘prefiguration’, or advance visioning of what kind of society we want after our objectives have been fulfilled.

वैश्वीकरण का संकट और विकल्प की खोज- In Hindi

मानव इतिहास में आमूल-चूल व्यवस्थागत परिवर्तन हुए हैं—उदाहरण के लिए, सैकड़ों वर्षों के राजाओं के शासन का अंत, औपनिवेशिक साम्राज्यों का पतन, नारीवादी विचारों और प्रथाओं का उदय, या प्रकृति की आवाज़ों को समाहित करने वाले स्वदेशी और सामुदायिक विचारों का पुनरुद्धार

Where rivers are denied space, floods cease to be natural events and become governance failures

The question is no longer whether India can afford to regulate its rivers, but whether it can afford not to do so.

क्यों कमजोर हो रहा है खेत और बैल का रिश्ता? (In Hindi)

रासायनिक खेती से सबसे बड़ा नुकसान पारंपरिक पशुपालन का हुआ है।

The many costs of heat and water

This Fact Sheet brings together key data on the human and economic costs of heat, with a particular focus on its links to water stress and access.

Education in an era of climate crisis

Our hope is that this approach will engender intellectual curiosity in students, inculcate a questioning mindset that can critique the status quo, and inoculate them against misinformation and disinformation (such as “greenwashing”).