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Is the system of rice intensification (SRI) consonant with agroecology?
Stop assuming that growth is limitless and resources are inexhaustible.
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Statement and Appeal on Ladakh’s Union Territory Status
Include Ladakh in the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution (Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council also to have control)
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A Digital Book Library for Blind Students Is Helping Them Visualise a Bright Future
Bengaluru based Samarthanam Trust for Disabled has 5,000 audio books to help students with disabilities achieve their educational goals.
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A flawed agenda for development
A narrow focus on growth-led development is the cause of the world’s sustainability crisis, not its solution
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Khadi Production in India: A Way Forward to Green Economy?
Ecological economists like Tim Jackson, Peter Victor, and others talk about prosperity without growth and highlight the need for greening the economy on a community scale.
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Local Alternatives to Globalized Development
Local Bites interviews scholar/activist, Ashish Kothari about his book, Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India, co-authored by Aseem Shrivastava.