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Whispers of Sindhu – A Story of Struggle

Today, when the day dawned, “Sindhu” came rushing towards me and started whispering something into my left ear. Following is...
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US Rebukes World Bank’s IFC Over Environmental Concerns in Pakistan Hydro Loan

In the World Bank’s board that thrives on consensus, the United States took the unusual step of voting against The...
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Equality in Dissent

Some three or four years back I travelled to the Alaknanda River Basin in Uttarakhand. At the time I was...
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Call for An Inquiry Into the Murum Dam

The attached letter was sent to the Malaysian Auditor General in January 2015, calling for an inquiry into the Murum Dam....
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India Rivers Week (2014) Highlights

India Rivers Week was held November 24-27, 2014 at the WWF-India campus in New Delhi. A first of its kind...
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Yamuna: My River Story

I have no teenage recollections of the river that flows through my place of birth and schooling. This is a...
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Bhutan and its Development Dilemma

In November last year, International Rivers’ team in South Asia and the Legal Initiative for Forests & Environment (LIFE) organized...
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Headwater Extinctions: Hydropower Be the Death of Fish

“You can either be pro-environment or pro-development” is a futile binary statement that government officials often aim at people like...
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Hydropower in Bhutan - Time for a Rethink?

The first international visit undertaken by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who came to power in May 2014 with a...
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The Hidden Hand Behind "Natural" Disasters

Floods and droughts in many parts of the world are getting ever more frequent and intense. Scientists have long warned...