Tanmay loves to walk. Read up more about his passion for walking (even in spite of a sprained ankle):
Walking is one of the simplest and more healthy way to wander around the places of interest within a city. While walking you can experience the zeal various places and things exhibit. The best walk is from [...]
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Expensive malls, cheap products?
Published by October 23rd, 2009 in Business, Capitalism, Consumer, Economy, Environment and Globalisation. 3 CommentsBhagwad thinks malls are expensive, but very little of the money spent there goes to the employees. And then he says products sold at malls are ‘profitable because we don’t pay the full cost of products from the mine to the dump’. Now, which is true? That the malls are expensive or the products are [...]
T R Shankar Raman writes extensively about death of animals on the highway.
Around India, as in other parts of the world, millions of animals risk daily encounter with increasingly fast vehicles plying on an expanding meshwork of roads and highways. Roads through our countryside and forests and the people who drive vehicles on these routes [...]
Bird Watching at Nalsarovar
Published by September 8th, 2009 in Environment, India and Travel. 0 CommentsNalsarovar is a Natural shallow lake about 64 km to the West of Ahmedabad in Gujarat. it is the largest wetland bird
sanctuary in Gujarat, and one of the largest in India. Bhaumik takes us bird watching on his blog….. Most Visible Birds : Ducks, Geese, Pelicans,Flamingos, Storks, Brahminy Ducks, Herons, Kingfishers, Egrets, Darters and Many [...]
Birds at the Silent Valley
Published by September 6th, 2009 in Environment, Photoblog and Travel. 0 CommentsSankara Subramanian travels through Kerala’s Silent Valley and posts some lovely pictures :
An interesting fact about Silent Valley National Park is that it is a rare rainforest. It is comparable to the rainforests of the Amazonian bason, of Panama and one more rainforest in South East Asia (though not sure of the name). Thus, it [...]
A more environment friendly Ganesh visarjan
Published by September 2nd, 2009 in Culture, Environment and Religion. 0 CommentsOver at the Punekar blog, Sagar says there are more ways of making the Ganesh utsav environment friendly than bans on immersion processions:
Moreover, I feel it is high time the government bans the production of Ganpati idols made from plaster of paris (PoP) preferred for its moulding characteristics. Not only is PoP non bio-degradable but [...]
It rained birds in Urban Gardener’s garden and she weaves a nice story around it-
Then the Spice Birds showed up and took over the bird-bath.
I rarely get to see them sit still. they’re usually flitting in and out of the garden with long grass strips in their beak busy building a nest in my Nursery [...]
Who can forget Mowgli, the pint-sized child and his adventures with Sher Khan and Bagheera of Rudyard Kipling’s best-seller Jungle Book. Teaming with exotic wildlife, this is the land that inspired Kipling to visualise his most famous work.
Despite my numerous attempts to brief him about the unique bio-diversity of Pench and the fascinating dry, deciduous [...]
‘Council of Sons-in-law and Relatives’ and other dream teams
Published by June 3rd, 2009 in Corruption, Education, Environment, Government, Media, NDTV, Policy and Science & Technology. 1 CommentAnu fisks an NDTV article that sees bright days ahead for India science because a ‘dream team’ has now assumed office at the top of the ministry:
If there is to be team that dares to dream science for India, it will first question the way we raise our children, the way families answer their questions, [...]
All this hustle and bustle
Published by May 11th, 2009 in Culture, Environment, Health, India, Misc, Society and Spotlight Series. 2 Comments[ This is Essay No. 38 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
All this hustle and bustle
by Usha
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As a nation we seem to have great tolerance for noise. It is silence that makes us uneasy. 25 years ago our neighbourhood was considered a suburban area and there were few houses and fewer [...]
Climate change and political will
Published by March 29th, 2009 in Environment, General Elections 2009, India, Policy and Politics. 0 CommentsRadhika Viswanathan comments on the lack of political initiative in dealing with climate change and its ramifications:
Thirdly, Greenpeace’s recent report on energy efficiency notes that given the right political will, India could potentially source 35% of its electricity requirements from renewable energy. Arguing that economic development need not be compromised, it calls for an “energy [...]
The Coke Connection
Published by March 25th, 2009 in Development, Environment, General Elections 2009, Geopolitics, Human Rights and Politics. 1 CommentColonos points out at Congress’ celebrity candidate Shashi Tharoor’s connection with a Coca-Cola funded organization and how it might impact his politics. The post also has a reply from Tharoor and the counter reply from India Resource Center.
“The very assumption of the report, in estimating the total groundwater availability in Chitoor block, that 20 per [...]
Saving India’s climate
Published by February 17th, 2009 in Activism, Development, Environment and India. 0 CommentsGo read the blog by the advocates of India’s Climate Solutions, who’ve posted about their recent Climate Solutions Road Tour:
I went on this tour in the search for inspiration, not just for myself but for the world at large. We need good stories these days–stories of hope and climate heroes and green successes. This one-month [...]
Bindu reminisces about a turtle walk she took along with volunteers involved in their protection.
We were led on this walk by an experienced volunteer named Arun, and were joined by half a dozen other volunteers as well. There was a small group of ~10-year old school kids as well, getting a first-class biology lesson right [...]
… or does everyone else notice the change in Delhi? Asks Munna:
Hat tip: Mekhala
A group of people from Chennai have started a forum and a community blog to discuss/preach/rave/write about Energy, Ecology and Environment related things. The team also includes Mr. T Jayaraman, who is a renowned expert on Energy saving Concepts and Controls. In one of their posts, Don points out to the hypocrisy of Citibank who [...]
Banno posts a great short story that’s been with her for a long time:
But now, there were no green fields, and the cattle sheds were wedged between concrete buildings so tall, that Malti had to strain to see the tops of them. The ground that she lived on seemed to have been forgotten for some [...]
The ‘teacher’s burden’
Published by October 20th, 2008 in Development, Environment, Feminism and Globalisation. 0 CommentsSneha Krishnan finds the existence of a patriarchy in globalization:
So, even as we speak of great development, we need to ask ourselves, “What is development?” Development to me may be the ability to communicate to the world using my Apple Mac laptop built and bought in California, while I stretch on the divan in [...]
Some concerned citizens of Mumbai have come together to Save Rani Bagh from ‘modernization’. Priyanka likes the idea of modernization and hopes the rare trees in the park can be saved:
Thinking about saving trees I actually remembered a scenario at the Isha Foundation, I worked at their yoga centre for a year. Well they [...]
‘There’s nothing lost if the Nano isn’t produced’
Published by September 1st, 2008 in Business, Development, Economy, Environment, Government, Justice, Policy and Politics. 2 CommentsThat’s Chandrashekar Hariharan’s view.
If business takes arrogant, belligerent and aggressive positions in the face of sensitivities involving local social dynamics and enormous potential ecological damage, it will be at the peril of government, industry and finally the people.
There is a despairing parable here of how industry and governments will self-destruct if they continued to be [...]
India and the Politics of Climate Change Negotiations
Published by February 20th, 2008 in Environment and Spotlight Series. 1 Comment[ This is Essay # 17 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
India and the Politics of Climate Change Negotiations
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Dweep
The Bali Conference on climate change concluded last December much as had been expected – with no real agreement on a post-Kyoto framework. Throughout the discussions India maintained its principled stance of a [...]
A Walk Down Hubbert’s Peak
Published by January 1st, 2008 in Environment, India and Spotlight Series. 3 Comments[This is essay #10 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for archives.]
Ninety nine percent of our energy comes from the Sun. The commercial energy that we pay for is about one percent of the energy we use. Commercial energy mostly (82 %) comes from non-renewable sources like oil (32%), coal (21%) and natural gas (23 [...]
Can Alternative Energy Power India’s Future?
Published by September 9th, 2007 in Announcement, Environment, Health and India. 3 CommentsSanjay Panda explores the possibilities and obstacles to alternative energy in India:
In India, the privatisation of oil exploration has also created a huge anti-alternative energy lobby led by oil companies such as Reliance, Essar Oil and Videocon, in cahoots with auto companies. A sign of their power came when New Delhi recently withdrew a Rs [...]
Satellites will save the Tiger!
Published by September 5th, 2007 in Environment, India and Science & Technology. 0 CommentsPeter Foster writes on what might be a hope for conservationists.
Among the favourite channels for often-illiterate villagers, apparently, are National Geographic and Animal Planet which are always showing beautiful wildlife films.
You often hear discussions about how television is changing rural India, awakening the masses to the aspirational lives and luxuries of the urban middle classes.
But [...]
In a thoroughly readable post, Aviram takes us on a journey through time :from the earliest conservation movements in India to the Appiko Chaluvali movement in Uttara Kannada district in present day Karnataka:
Long before Al Gore began sharing the inconvenient truth about the environment, villagers in India understood it and were performing their own form [...]
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