The Ever-Strengthening Bond Between Climate Crisis And Joblessness!
Glaciers are melting, the Amazon is burning, and half of India is underwater. So, what’s new? I apologise for being so blunt. Actually, I don’t. Greta Thunberg is here, and she has destroyed the United...
View Article“ट्यूशन वाले सर के यहां हमें शौचालय वाले मग से पानी पिलाया गया”
अभी हाल ही में मैंने जातिवाद पर एक लेख लिखते हुए यह बाताया था कि किस तरह से झारखंड के दुमका ज़िले के नोनीहाट प्रखंड के ठारी गाँव में शादी अटेंड करने के दौरान दलितों के साथ भेदभाव किया जा रहा था। मैंने...
View ArticleWhy Wait 800 Years For A Pad To Decompose When You Can Switch To Sustainable...
An irregular period cycle, constant Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) and irritability, etc. due to use of Disposable Sanitary Napkins (DSNs) are some of the common reasons why many menstruators have...
View ArticleHere’s How Climate Change Is Impacting The Lives Of Local Vendors In Delhi
A ‘bun tikki’ vendor at IP College for Women. Image provided by the author. Informal economies have been considerably neglected in the deliberations about climate change. This holds true as the primary...
View ArticleWith 5,000 Euphemisms For Periods, Can We Expect Representation That...
Periods have always been a very hush topic in society, even more so in India. Men often have zero ideas about the nuances and the very natural aspect of it, and internalised misogyny often forces...
View ArticleManipur’s Shirui Lily Faces Extinction. Here’s What Can Be Done To Save It.
Shirui Lily growing in its native habitat, Shirui Hills in Shirui Village 16 km from Ukhrul District Headquarters in Manipur, India. Picture Courtesy: Priyojik Akoijam Shirui lily (Lilium Mackliniae...
View ArticleWhy We Need To Go Beyond Tree Plantation To Increase Earth’s Green Cover
8220;To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, to live as a people, we must have trees.” – Theodore Roosevelt As this article rightly states, “forests are one of the planet’s first lines of defence...
View Article‘If It’s Yellow, Let It Mellow’: How Cape Town Averted Its Water Crisis
In January 2018, when the newspapers carried the frightful news that Cape Town would completely run out of Municipal water, I was left stunned. Yes, the climate change and water crisis were buzzing...
View Articleदुनियाभर में जलवायु परिवर्तन से बढ़ रहा है भुखमरी का खतरा
गरीबी उन्मूलन दिवस पहली बार 1987 में फ्रांस में मनाया गया था। इसमें लगभग एक लाख लोगों ने मानवाधिकारों की मांग को लेकर प्रदर्शन किया था। इस प्रदर्शन के लगभग पांच वर्ष बाद संयुक्त राष्ट्र द्वारा 22...
View ArticleHow Expensive Is It to Tackle The Climate Crisis In India?
While the conversation on climate change is slowly becoming a part of our lives, how difficult and expensive is it to tackle the problem of climate change? With implications for social ecosystems,...
View ArticleHow My School’s ‘Period Talk’ Left Me With More Questions Than Answers!
A girl never forgets her first menstruation experience. It often starts with stained underwear, followed by confusion, a disclosure, and then the ultimate ‘covert operation training’ on how to never...
View ArticleDams for some, Damnation for Many: Who Pays the Price For The Sardar Sarovar...
Jawaharlal Nehru famously called dams the “temples of modern India” in 1954. Dams were envisioned as the answer to modernising India’s agriculture and thereby boosting its tottering rural economy. They...
View Articleहम किसानों को पराली जलाना किसने सिखाया था?
दिल्ली मेट्रो में यमुना का पुल पार करते हुए पिछले एक दो दिनों से एक अजीब सा कोहरा आसमान में दिखाई दे रहा है। कहा जा रहा है यह कोहरा नहीं बल्कि हर वर्ष की तरह हरियाणा और पंजाब के किसानों द्वारा जलाई गई...
View ArticleIDR Interviews Physicist, Activist And Ecofeminist, Dr Vandana Shiva
By Saahil Kejriwal, Rachita Vora Dr Vandana Shiva is a physicist, environmental activist, and food sovereignty and anti-globalisation advocate. Trained as a scientist in quantum theory from the...
View Articleहर किसी को करनी होगी ‘प्लास्टिक मुक्त पहल’
पिछले दिनों बिहार सहित देश के प्रमुख हिस्सों में हुई भीषण बारिश के बाद हुए जल जमाव और बाढ़ की स्थिति ने लोगों के जीवन में जिस तरह की फज़ीहत पैदा की, उससे उबरने में उन्हें लंबा वक्त लगेगा। कुछ लोग इसे...
View Articleपीरियड्स के दौरान 62 फीसदी महिलाएं कपड़े का इस्तेमाल करती हैं
प्रकृति की रचना में महिला और पुरुष एक अहम हिस्सा हैं। महिलाओं और परुषों में बहुत सारी समानताएं होने के साथ-साथ कुछ भिन्नता भी हैं। ऐसी ही एक भिन्नता महिलाओं में माहवारी की है। प्राचीन समय से माहवारी की...
View ArticleHow Much Forest Is In Your Coffee?
Image via Pixabay The first activity that many of us do in the morning when we wake up is probably head straight to the kitchen and start boiling a cup full of water for our morning pick-me-up. That...
View Articleदोबारा ऑड-ईवन की घोषणा पर क्या कहना है दिल्ली की जनता का
फ्री में दिन में 44 सिगरेट्स पिलाने की बात पर शायद सिगरेट पीने वाला भी मना कर दे लेकिन आप दिल्ली में रहते हैं, तो यह आपकी मजबूरी है। भले ही आप सिगरेट पीते हो या नहीं, आपको रोज़ाना लगभग 44 सिगरेट्स...
View Article‘Early Puberty Makes Girls Weak In Maths’ And Other Absurd Notions About Periods
Talking about menstrual hygiene or just periods was considered a taboo when I was in school, and this was even though I came from a privileged background. Although my school did have the provision of...
View ArticleAdding To Climate Change, Here’s How Caste Shapes Water Conflicts In Maharashtra
Water scarcity has become one of the most complex conflicts in Maharashtra, where three individual stressors interact together to shape the conflict. The stressors can be understood as...
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