Inhabited Sea
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How Mumbai’s flamingos and Koli fishers could help the city in its battle against flooding
They offer lessons about designing a more watery, resilient and just city.
Rhea Shah
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To save Mumbai’s toxic Thane Creek, experts should listen to the experiences of traditional fishers
Amidst rising waters in times of climate change, the Kolis are inheritors of an entire knowledge system that was assembled by centuries of collective living.
Lalitha Kamath & Gopal Dubey
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What Mumbai’s sea of plastic taught researchers about the city’s economy of waste
How do plastics and other waste that do not get recycled become the marine debris’ sampled on the shore?
Adwaita Banerjee, Siddharth Chitalia, Courtney Daub & Zulekha Sayyed
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‘Knowing we’re mortal gives us purpose’: Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan on his new book
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Ramachandra Guha: How Narendra Modi has undermined the practice of science in India
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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Outrage online as BJP Karnataka posts video ‘demonising’ Muslims
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In Amit Shah’s Gandhinagar, three Lok Sabha candidates allege they faced pressure to withdraw
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In Mumbai’s Lallubhai Compound, children film how the monsoon affects their resettlement colony
Their point of interest is not the event of rain itself, but all of the things that it permeates.
Ashok Sukumaran
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For Mumbai to cope with frequent floods, it must see itself as a place in an estuary – not an island
The operative word in the island city is ‘drain’. The operative word in the estuary is ‘soak’.
Anuradha Mathur & Dilip da Cunha
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As monsoon-soaked Mumbai battles with the sea, residents on the margins hold out key lessons
The city’s fishers, wetland farmers and others on the edge could help designers understand the changing rhythms of water, earth and air.
Nikhil Anand
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Eco India: A new buzzword for a protein rich animal feed: Insect farming
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Eco India, Episode 259: How future-proof innovations can revolutionize the way we protect nature
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Video: What will it take to bring back peace to Manipur?
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‘Physical building of WhatsApp University’: Satire on viral video of Galgotias University students
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