In search of a practicable organic livelihood
Sumit Sarkar Environmental activist, Bankura, West Bengal Email: indsumitsarkar@yahoo.in It’s now almost a decade ago while I was attending a seminar in relation to organic farming. There I came...
Bowled by the Bat: Influenza virus
Avirup Sanyal 1,2, Abhranil Gangopadhayya3 and Som Banerjee4 1- Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University, Haryana, India 2- National Center for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, India...
Encapsulated Himalayan ecosystem and traditional knowledge: Jeopardized by tourism
Sarika1, Anusha Chaudhary2, Anuradha Kumari1 and Bharti Chandel1 1- Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2- Researcher, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi...
Fifty shades of food – gathering no-cost nutrition
Avik Ray Centre for studies in Ethnobiology, Biodiversity and Sustainability (CEiBa), West Bengal – 732103, India E-mail: avikray@ceibatrust.org Our imagination of food is depicted in...
Neglected: ‘Development’, Climate Change and the impact on marginalized Communities
Ishita Pradeep School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences, Krea University E mail: ishita_p.sias19@krea.ac.in In late 2019, Mumbai witnessed a large-scale civil-society protest against the proposed metro car-shed project at Aarey,...
Rural settlement: The epicenter of sustainability in environmentally challenged India
A countryside…a village….a place of tranquility for many of the urban dwellers. Certainly, the greenery, cultivated field, openness, and mosaic of land parcels tend to...
Biodiversity conservation to sustainable consumption: Discerning the root causes of the environmental crisis
In the last few decades, environmental issues at different scales have become an integral part of our everyday lives. International relations and political discourses are...
The uncivilized food
A rainy day of the end of August. Raindrops kept pouring over the green waves of rice fields. It seems that there would be a...
ZBNF – a bullet no way near the bull’s eye?
Zero Budget Natural Farming or ZBNF is a newly hatched baby aka agricultural practice that has become enormously popular in recent decades and embraced by...
The digital direction for citizens to protect the environment
The UNESCO Science Report states globally, there were about 7.8 million researchers in 2013 working full-time. 7.8 million researchers in science proportional to 0.1% of...