Despite the serial disasters of pandemic, cyclone and locust attack, India’s economic stimulus package continues with its inefficient short-term thinking, although there is no shortage of viable alternatives
People in the Sundarbans wonder why they bother rebuilding when their land is being taken by the sea and their huts will fall down again in the next cyclone
We have to invest in resilience-building measures, especially in health infrastructure, and weather and disease forecast systems, addressing training and adaptive capacity needs
The morning after the strongest cyclone ever to hit West Bengal shows tremendous destruction. There is still no news from much of Sundarbans
In West Bengal, evacuees and people quarantined for possible coronavirus infections are crammed inside the same buildings because there are no other shelters
The federal government has reduced solar tariffs for central public sector companies to boost domestic production of photovoltaic cells and modules
Fisheries markets collapsed in the first days of the lockdown, impoverishing hundreds of thousands of small fishers in India, and recovery is nowhere in sight
India’s second longest river is flowing clean in the lockdown forced by Covid-19. A grim reminder of how it was before could persuade us to keep it that way
India can turn the crisis precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic into an opportunity by resetting its energy spending to favour renewable power in all spheres of economic activity
India’s pandemic lockdown has plunged agriculture into a crisis that needs immediate cash transfers to bail out smallholder farmers preparing for the summer cropping season