How the Meo Community Fights Stereotypes with Sustainable Water Management?
To build climate resilience, need to shed our conventional colonial mindset and ignorance towards local communities of Mewat, treat them as knowledgeable communities.
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.
मरुभूमि में पानी की रिश्तेदारी (In Hindi)
राजस्थान के तालाब सैकड़ों सालों से सदानीरा है। इन पानीदार परंपराओं की सार-संभाल गांववालों ने की है। अब इन्हें संभालने का जिम्मा युवा और महिलाओं ने लिया है।
Covid-19 calls for a new agriculture
Development paradigms need to integrate livelihood goals with those of sustainability and health.
Groundwater Regulation: A Challenge to make the ‘Invisible Visible’ in India
Acknowledging groundwater as ‘commons’ is an important step in the right direction.
India’s Youth Have a Right and Duty to Resist and Create; Elders Need to Enable This or Get Out of the Way
Enable the flourishing of the youth’s own agency, be available for guiding, give them a sense of history, facilitate a range of options
Pandemic Resilience in the Western Himalayas
Himalayan communities demonstrating perseverence, resilience and tenacity in the face of COVID19.
Springs that sustain millions
Women of Himachal's villages - no longer trudging miles to fetch safe drinking water
Women Revive Traditional Water Sources in Uttarakhand
"... after pipelines got damaged in the 2013 floods, people started visiting these traditional sources of water once again,”