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Is Our New Environment Minister Anti-Large Dams?

The author, Shripad Dharmadhikary, with Medha Patkar when he was an activist with the Narmada Bachao Andolan or Save the...
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Surplus Power, Yet Millions in the Dark

Last week, India’s Minster of Power went on record saying that India can meet its electricity demand for the next...
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Mr. Prime Minister: Save the Wetlands of India

With an enduring drought ravaging many parts of the country, last month the Prime Minister waxed eloquent on the need...
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The Surprising Success of Micro Hydro

This is Part 3 of our three-part series on renewable energy solutions. Dipti Vaghela of the Hydro Empowerment Network. Switzer...
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Listen to the People of the Land

The people’s struggle in the Teesta River basin in Sikkim (India) has gone through a change of guard recently. Tseten...
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Drought: Hydropower's Achilles Heel

The Sobradinho reservoir in Brazil, during the worst drought in its history. Marcello Casal Jr/Agência Brasil Drought: The news has...
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Will Empowering "Gram Sabhas" in India Derail Development?

There is unease in the corporate sector over a recent decision by the National Green Tribunal (NGT). After a seven-year...
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Indigenous Activists: In the Crosshairs of Development

Munduruku activist in Brazil When we learned that Berta Cáceres, a leader of the indigenous Lenca people, was murdered in...
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Police Kill Two Anti-Dam Protesters in North India

Tawang Gate. By Dhrubazaan Photography, via Wikimedia Commons We’ve received terrible news about dam fighters in India today. According to...
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Campaign in Poetry

Arun Tiwari, journalist and poet, has written extensively on rural development, ecological democracy and water related issues in India. Writers...