It’s time India started a department for the Forgotten Resident Indians who build and run our cities

The country’s shadow citizens – domestic workers, waste pickers, labourers, construction workers, dhobis and many more – must finally be given their due.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· May 06, 2020 · 07:30 am

Wetland in Gurugram is a perfect example of what is wrong with India’s urban planning

India’s urban planners and citizens seem wedded to the notion that land not used for a tangible purpose is ‘wasted space’.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Apr 14, 2019 · 08:00 am

Going vegan is a healthy option, but it won’t work for much of middle-class India

In the real world, vegan is rarely pitched as home food with minor modifications.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Dec 30, 2018 · 08:00 am

Why eating mock meat is a moral cop-out for any vegetarian

The idea of faux meat eclipses the very premise of vegetarianism.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Oct 31, 2018 · 11:30 am

Delhi tree felling: Should bureaucrats or citizens plan the future of their cities?

By protesting against the cutting of trees in the national capital, its residents finally staked their claim over the city.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Sep 16, 2018 · 08:00 am

Plastic waste is causing a sea of trouble by poisoning and slowly killing marine life

Can you imagine toxic styrene from the disposable plate at someone’s birthday party in the blood of a tiny sea creature?

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Jun 05, 2018 · 07:30 am

As bioplastics get popular in India, a more genuine green choice is to boot out plastic altogether

For many types of plastic, the only valid alternative is a lifestyle shift.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Jun 04, 2018 · 07:30 am

India’s waste crisis: Clean-up drives are not the solution – they only address visual pollution

There is a lot that goes wrong even after we securely place our trash in the bin.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Jun 03, 2018 · 06:30 am

Blocking out the poor: Why the attitude of many urban middle class volunteers at my NGO bothers me

Their gated, guarded, supervised lives do not seem to allow for osmosis with the larger world.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Apr 19, 2018 · 08:00 am

Why the Indian government must rescind GST levied on scraps of plastic, paper, cardboard and glass

It will worsen environmental conditions, exacerbate poverty and defeat the aims of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Jul 23, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Is this book the obituary we do not want written for India’s wildlife?

It’s hard to find good news in Prerna Singh Bindra’s study of India’s vanishing bio-diversity.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Jul 22, 2017 · 08:30 am

What a waste: All parties talk of cleaning Delhi in civic polls manifestos, but none know how

Making the national capital garbage-free is a common poll plank, but the parties have not gotten to the root of the problem.

Bharati Chaturvedi

· Apr 22, 2017 · 06:30 pm