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The human price of climate change

What are the most worrisome aspects of climate change for India?Can they be solved?Environment crusader Sunita Narain believes it is possible.A must read excerpt from her latest book, Conflicts Of......

Time has come to correct what's wrong in meat production market

We need to clarify the rules for legal slaughterhouses and make sure that these can be enforced, notes Sunita Narain. When I wrote about vegetarianism, or, more precisely, why I as an Indian......

Why I would not support a ban on meat

Banning meat is cruel demonetisation. It is stealing from the poor, nothing less, writes Sunita Narain. Recently at the release of our book First Food: Culture of Taste, which discusses the link......

Environmentalist Sunita Narain stable after hit-and-run mishap

Hit by a car while cycling, environmental activist Sunita Narain on Monday said cyclists in Indian cities are being edged out systematically to make way for cars. "Cyclists in Indian cities are......

Anna Hazare and his 80s revolution

Sunita Narain profiles the man who never took half steps to development and transformed a drought-hit village into a prosperous one back in the 1980s. The first time I met Anna Hazare was in the......

Big warnings from 2015 to save the environment

Another catastrophe awaits us - living in a more inequitable, insecure, and intolerant world, notes Sunita Narain. The year 2015 has come to an end. It was full of events that are......

India must find affordable solutions to protect environment

All the energy is spent on blocking projects - so once they are cleared, the mission is lost, notes Sunita Narain. Debates are essentially polarised and noisy. But for resolution and movement in......

PM re-constitutes climate panel; CSE's Narain, Ratan Tata out

Prime Minister Narendra Modi re-constituted a high-level climate panel and dropped well-known environmentalist Sunita Narain and top industry leader Ratan Tata from the council. TERI chairperson R......

How we can clean the highly polluted Ganga river

Water is drawn for agriculture, industry and cities, but only waste is returned to the river says Sunita Narain. Way back in 1986, Rajiv Gandhi launched the Ganga Action Plan. But years later,......

Going green: Take the bus or buy a hybrid car?

Do we want to take the modern convenient bus or celebrate the new hybrid car? That's the choice, says Sunita Narain. A new decade. For me, three decades of work in the field of environment. I......

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