Sands Out of Time: How Long Will Our Rivers Suffer from Illegal Sand Mining?
India’s construction boom in the last decade has completely changed the way our cities look. Enthusiastic social media often film our cities and compare our ...
Can India’s Leather Industry Escape from Chromium?
India’s leather industry is under growing pressure to reduce its dependence on chromium tanning. India is not alone. A 2021 study showed that nearly 85–90 ...
Why India’s food security is vulnerable to shocks beyond its borders
If there is one clear lesson for India from the latest crisis around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, it is this: a country cannot ...
Recycling Plastic or Recycling Promises: Why India’s Landfills Keep Growing
The Ghazipur landfill in Delhi now rises nearly as high as a seventeen-storey building. Trucks continue to unload waste at its base every day, even ...
India Beats Climate Change At Wasting Food: The Cold Storage Conundrum
Indian news outlets often show our farmers throwing food on the highway or selling their produce in a distress sale. Truckloads of onions or tomatoes ...
Banking on the banks of River Ganga
For forty years, India has tried to clean the Ganga the way it builds highways, by funding big projects, awarding contracts, and measuring progress in ...
The Sacred Filament: Can Lotus Silk Redefine Sustainable Luxury?
It is the early 1900s in Kyaing Khan village in Myanmar’s Shan region. A 50-year-old weaver, Daw Sa Oo, is said to have noticed the ...
Seeds of Power (Part 2): Centralisation, Corporations, and the Future of India’s Food
While Part 1 of our series on the Seed Management Bill examined what it means for farmers on the ground, the Bill’s other far-reaching consequences ...



