ecological sustainability
Crisis in India’s bread basket

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

The Bicycle: Selected Writings on Bicycle

Essays offering a perspective on bicycle movements and the politics involved in it.

पानी को सहेजने की परम्परा (In Hindi)

पानी सरीखे बुनियादी संसाधन को लेकर क्या किया जाए?

Declining bird populations are a ‘grim’ reminder of rapid biodiversity loss, says new report

Targeted, systematic, periodic monitoring of bird populations and using consistent methods can help species management.

Hakki Pikki: The global nomads of Karnataka 

The Hakki Pikkis are an entrepreneurial community. Theirs is an economy of subsistence and the marginalised. Their trade networks do not conform to the known notions of the ‘poor’.

Ruza, a traditional water harvesting system for the water-scarce mountains

It is a communal practice with the water shared among families and an integrated form of farming comprising forestry, horticulture, agriculture, fishery and animal husbandry.

Can quick-fix solutions address India’s growing water woes?

Resistance to such destructive projects by helping the communities and their organisations fight them and developing alternatives through research and capacity building should be seen as part of our interventions or engagement in the urban space.

Chasing Soppu: A guide to wild edible plants in Bengaluru

Urban foraging of edible plants in Bengaluru.

अवसाद को कम करता है पक्षी संगीत (In Hindi)

प्रकृति को निहारना, पक्षियों को देखना, उनकी आवाजें सुनना सुकून व शांति देता है।