New draft rules will marginalise fisherfolk, hand over India’s coasts to tourists, real estate firms

The Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 2018 uses affordable housing as an excuse to allow for denser construction closer to the high tide line.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Jan 02, 2019 · 06:30 pm

Sterlite factory hearings at National Green Tribunal have left activists upset

The court would not let them argue against Vedanta’s challenge to the factory’s closure and refused to even provide a copy of the enquiry committee’s report.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Dec 14, 2018 · 07:30 am

Why shutting down Sterlite’s polluting copper factory in Thoothukudi is only a small victory

The Tamil Nadu government’s order may not survive a legal challenge unless it’s strengthened by citing the company’s gross illegalities.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· May 29, 2018 · 08:00 am

For Chennai to truly be a Creative City, music must leave the auditorium and fill the streets

The Unesco recognition for the city’s music tradition is an opportunity to cultivate a culture of listening to diverse voices.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Nov 11, 2017 · 08:00 am

India’s new wetland rules threaten to destroy 65% of its water bodies rather than protect them

Notified in September, the rules will facilitate the development of wetlands as real estate, industrial sites and garbage dumps.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Oct 12, 2017 · 06:30 am

Jallikattu debate: There are good reasons to criticise the sport but animal cruelty is the flimsiest

It's essential to recognise the agrarian cultural context within which the sport is organised.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Jan 19, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Why engineering interventions won’t prevent another flood in Chennai

A reorientation of values in which common areas like canals, rivers and grasslands are valued more than ports, power plants, highways may help avert disaster.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Sep 07, 2016 · 12:30 pm

There is no power shortage in the country – but the entire sector is in a mess

The power sector urgently needs better financial management and more investment in transmission and distribution infrastructure, not capacity addition

Nityanand Jayaraman

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Mukul Kumar

· Aug 18, 2016 · 10:30 am

Why is India so keen on importing US nuclear reactors that even the US doesn't seem to want?

The deals have more to do with the financial well-being of US equipment suppliers than with the aspirations of India's electricity consumers.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Mar 31, 2016 · 07:30 pm

Unilever mercury poisoning case: Can corporations really be human?

The belated settlement with former workers of its Kodaikanal thermometer factory proves that the phrase 'responsible corporations' is an oxymoron.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Mar 12, 2016 · 12:30 pm

Former atomic energy regulator explains why India needs to pause its nuclear power plans

Dr A Gopalakrishnan, the former chief of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, spelt out the problems in a speech to the State Level Convention on Nuclear Energy in Chennai on January 30

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Feb 02, 2016 · 08:00 am

As floodwaters recede, the mistakes of Chennai look set to be repeated in Cheyyur

A proposed power plant in the coastal taluk of Tamil Nadu could destroy the natural ecosystem and have disastrous consequences.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Dec 21, 2015 · 09:15 am