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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Matri Sadan, established in 1997, has emerged as a hub of saints and activists undertaking satyagraha to protect Ganga river.
The IMF claims that it is supporting biodiversity, as its economists are able to measure the monetary value of an elephant and the value of a whale. The ruling class might be able to calculate those values, but it is clear that they are unwilling to foot the bill to save the planet.
A new study finds Greenland’s ice sheet thinning much further into the ice sheet core than previously thought, 100 miles inland. The implications are extremely concerning and far-reaching especially for sea level rise.
Food sovereignty activists challenge a wealthy white man’s flawed assumptions, hubris, and ignorance.
Remembering C. P. Cavafy’s famous poem, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians.
In a hard-hitting exposé on his weekly segment ‘Truth vs Hype’, released on 19 November, Srinivasan Jain, the popular TV anchor with NDTV, talks about the so-called ‘Forced Conversions’ with incontrovertible facts and the falsehoods and myths that are built around the issue!
A company run by Asia’s richest man, Gautam Adani, is strip-mining tribal lands for fossil fuels. Forest-dwellers are fighting back.
“In Odisha, Seed Banks are Bringing Back Traditional and Organic Methods of Farming”; and “Sustainable Agriculture: Bringing Indian Farmers on Board”.
On the continuing abuse and exploitation of women and minor girls from impoverished eastern states trafficked to fill the gap in states with a skewed sex ratio.
As extreme rains, alternating with prolonged dry spells, wreak havoc on the kharif crop, small and marginal farmers in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha are facing acute distress that will only get worse in the months ahead.
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