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

Try Swachhing this: What the sea returned to Chennai

The floods in the city have brought into focus its problem of water pollution.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Nov 26, 2015 · 06:30 pm

Chennai floods are not a natural disaster – they've been created by unrestrained construction

The infrastructure of big commerce has replaced the infrastructure to withstand natural shocks.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Nov 18, 2015 · 08:15 am

Why we got rapper Sofia Ashraf to make a video about Hindustan Unilever's Kodaikanal plant

An activist explains the background of the long agitation against the giant firm's controversial thermometer plant in Kodaikanal.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Aug 06, 2015 · 01:30 pm

‘Ex-post facto prior environmental clearances’: How a nonsensical phrase was used to flout the law

The National Green Tribunal's recent order exposes the illegalities of elite offenders, including IIT-Madras and Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Jul 11, 2015 · 06:30 pm

Why Indian rules to curb coal pollution will not work

The environment ministry does not propose to regulate power plants set up between 2007 and 2016 and is imposing lax standards on the remainder.

Nityanand Jayaraman

· Jun 19, 2015 · 01:30 pm