Artwork by Tanun In the third week of August 2024, disturbing visuals of people — poor and helpless — relocating to relief camps from their houses submerged under water were seen on social media. With no regard for national boundaries, an unprecedented deluge had affected North Unkoti, Dhalai, Khowai, Gumti and South Tripura districts of … Continue reading The Dam and The Deluge: Decoding the Tripura-Bangladesh Floods—Ananyo Chakraborty
Category: Environment
Misdiagnosing Climate Change: Exploring the Interplay of Overpopulation and Overconsumption—Shashi Singh
A popular poster depicting a stark contrast between big and small families. A big family is mired in poverty and strife; a small family, on the other hand, is happy and content. It depicts the (natural and material) plentitude that comes with a small family. [Source: Pinterest] Last year, in the month of July, the … Continue reading Misdiagnosing Climate Change: Exploring the Interplay of Overpopulation and Overconsumption—Shashi Singh
The Shikari and the Empire: Jim Corbett’s Silence and the Ghosts of Tree Tops—Suchintan Das
“Over wide areas of the United Provinces [Jim Corbett’s] name is familiar to the village folk as that of the man who has brought them relief from the great fear inspired by a cruel and malignant presence in their midst”, wrote Victor Hope, the 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow and the 22nd Viceroy of India. The … Continue reading The Shikari and the Empire: Jim Corbett’s Silence and the Ghosts of Tree Tops—Suchintan Das
Discontents of Development: Lessons from the Baghjan Gas Tragedy—Riya Lohia
Residents of Notun Gaon Protesting (Image Courtesy: Noihrit) On 27 May, one of the gas wells at the Baghjan oil field in Assam’s Tinsukia district had a blowout. Fearing that this uncontrollable release of natural gas and oil condensate might catch fire, Oil India Limited called a team of experts from Singapore to contain the … Continue reading Discontents of Development: Lessons from the Baghjan Gas Tragedy—Riya Lohia
The Alchemy of Well-Being—Suchintan Das
Angelus Novus by Paul Klee A pot of wine among the flowers. I drink alone, no friend with me. I raise my cup to invite the moon. He and my shadow and I make three. –––Li Bai, Drinking Alone with the Moon (Translated by Vikram Seth) These lines, penned by the eighth century Taoist poet … Continue reading The Alchemy of Well-Being—Suchintan Das
A Pandemic Panning Across: Corona and the Questions It Asks—Ananyo Chakraborty
Courtesy: People's Archive of Rural India The Covid-19 or the novel Corona virus pandemic has affected vast sections of the world population and has already caused widespread damage in almost all aspects of human life. The world has come to a lockdown where people are being forced to self-isolate and not go outside to prevent … Continue reading A Pandemic Panning Across: Corona and the Questions It Asks—Ananyo Chakraborty
City of Indifference: A Trip to the Gas Chamber—Riya Lohia
The Yellow Balloon Delhi has become a gas chamber, where the internet is filled with pollution-awareness articles, satirical memes and cartoons and the streets are filled with masked faces. When the pollution seems to affect everyone we know, the only people carrying out their lives normally are the ‘People of the streets’- the rickshaw-pullers, weight-machine … Continue reading City of Indifference: A Trip to the Gas Chamber—Riya Lohia
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