The Prime Minister has vowed that India will generate 175 GW through renewable energy sources by 2022 or even 2020; but those planning infrastructure to take this power to the people are only designing for 65 GW, at best
Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister, has repeatedly promised at home and abroad that the country will generate 175 GW of…Read More
The 60 million people visiting Ujjain for the Kumbh Mela were not bothered about the dying Shipra and efforts to rejuvenate the holy river. What mattered was the pilgrimage that carried the promise of moksha and salvation
Despite the festivities, there has been an undertow of anxiety at the Kumbh Mela in recent times, brought home painfully this year…Read More
While winning populist praise, putting dying rivers in India on life support by transporting water at enormous cost from other river basins is contentious at best, raising serious questions on transparent allocation of this increasingly scarce resource
Like his forebears before him, 70-year-old Bhimdev Paliwal was telling a tale of faith and tradition to his grandson in a makeshift tent…Read More
The dark shadow of dying rivers and receding water lie over the Kumbh Melas as hasty interventions and climate change threaten to disrupt the largest human gatherings on earth
“When I came to the Kumbh in my childhood, this was a beautiful river flowing with sweet water,” Badal Nath, 64, reminisces on the banks of the Shipra river in Ujjain…Read More
Building of embankments has turned the capricious river into a fiendish foe for Nepal and India
All rivers in the Koshi basin lead to the Ganga. The major rivers the Sunkoshi, Arun and Tamor travel hundreds of kilometres from the glaciers in Tibet and meet at Triveni, 20 kilometres before the foothills peter out into the southern plains of Nepal. For people living on the plains…Read more
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