The whole world witnessed massive destruction by tsunami in Japan. People in India need not be relieved that they will not be affected by nature’s wrath. In fact whenever India will face tsunami or earthquakes there will be even more destruction than Japan as we are not prepared for it.

It seems that the life of the farmers has to be gutted by one tension or the other. Their suicide rates are increasing day by day. If the government will not listen to them or understand their plight then who else will look after them? Unable to get any help they find dying an easy and painless option. This is what they are left to do by the grace of our government which boasts to be on the side of the ‘common man’ always. Approximately, 1785 acres of land will be acquired to build Air Force Station in Tundala Block.

North East India is one of the richest repositories of Medicinal and Aromatic plants in the world. The ages long integral relationship between human race and plant resources endued the modern civilization with many medicinal qualities. Our infelicity lies in lax administration and absence of laws that has encouraged China along with several neighboring countries is exploiting this rich repositories.

Few days back one of my friends gave me a telephone call, from Mundra sea coast in Gujarat. His question made me ponder for quite a long time.

Everywhere in the world today the question of development has been tied up with questions pertaining to ecology, nature and sustainability. But in MP, the administrative and political set up has decided to deprive the people of all their natural wealth even before they wake up to the reality that they have been robbed. The [...]

Usually it is regarded that using increased amounts of chemical fertilizers and pesticides results in higher output and this directly translated into higher income for the farmers. The government also encourages the farmers to resort to this sort of scientific agriculture but the science of this is just confined to the heavy infusion of fertilizers [...]

Lions and tigers are considered as boon to nature. The nature has given them liability to protect the forest. It’s a dismal fact that the same protector is in danger. The 11 thousand years old history of tiger is prosperous. Despite of all problems and lacunas most of the tigers are found in Uttarakhand. The [...]

It cant be said whether the Bhopal gas victims got justice after 25 years or mere a joke was played with their sentiments on the name of justice. After the 25 years of Bhopal gas tragedy the judicial tragedy has shaken the whole world. Once again the deadly memories of the 1984 dance around the eyes of the poor victims…

After the minister of environment Jairam Ramesh announced a moratorium on Bt brinjal, article after article in the media has denounced the decision, saying such decisions should be left to ‘scientists.’ The issue is however not science vs anti-science. It is reductionist science vs systems science. The moratorium took into account the best of science.

A general frustration on part of the vulnerable communities at the slow pace of progress in climate change, the use of traditional politico-scientific approach which was leading to no productive developments, the ignored victims of the problem, Lack of accountability mechanism to deal with the phenomenon caused by man; all these reasons lead to a paradigm shift in December 2005 when an alliance of Inuit from Canada and United states filled a petition before the inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The petition alleged that the human rights of the plaintiffs had been infringed and were further violated due to failure of the United States to curb its green house gas emissions. Though this petition was rejected, the Commission subsequently in February 2007 invited alliance of Inuit together with representatives from centre for international environmental law (“CIEL”) and Earthjustice to provide testimony on the link between global warming and human rights.