Bangalore adds more vehicles than Delhi each day -- over 1,000. It has less road space than Delhi and more green space. The future the city has is ugly and hopefully not inevitable.
If India is to become the favourite junk provider of the world then we will have to do the same. The only difference between us and the Chinese is our democracy.
The bottled water industry is global in nature. But it is designed to sell the same product to two completely different markets: one water-rich and the other water-scarce.
Will Indian scientists' measure up to the challenge of climate change?
Mining in Goa has brought companies and villagers head to head, says Sunita Narain.
Over the years the state has taken over water resources from the hands of village communities. The irony is that even as the state has vested this power in itself, people have taken water under their control.
The challenge of climate change puts the onus on us to demand much more than the pusillanimous actions that the world is prepared to give.
It would be logical economics of the market that if something expensive is given away free, people will overuse it.
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