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Will the TSR Panel help India manage environment better?
December 8, 2014, 5:28 AM IST
The TSR Subramanian Committee’s report on overhauling environmental governance in India is a puzzling document. It correctly identifies environmental crises facing India and the lacunae in environmental regulations, monitoring and enforcement responsible. And goes on…
December 8, 2014, 5:28 AM IST
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More on the Chandasi Coal mandi
October 15, 2014, 5:14 PM IST
Today’s ET carries my story on the Chandasi coal mandi outside Varanasi. Mandis like this one are an essential – if poorly understood – cog in India’s economy. Small businesses, like brick kilns, glass manufacturers…
October 15, 2014, 5:14 PM IST
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Why the Forest Rights Act is not being implemented well
August 13, 2014, 11:12 AM IST
Last month, union tribal Minister Jual Oram told the Lok Sabha that India is making “satisfactory progress” implementing the “Forest Rights Act” (FRA). However, a closer look at the numbers he submitted in the house…
August 13, 2014, 11:12 AM IST
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Will PM Modi’s Financial Inclusion Drive Use Aadhaar for Authentication?
August 2, 2014, 3:07 PM IST
In less than two weeks, PM Narendra Modi is expected to announce a new Financial Inclusion drive. However, even as the anointed day – the 15th of August – draws near, key aspects of this…
August 2, 2014, 3:07 PM IST
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On Land Deals, the BJP and the Congress
May 11, 2014, 9:44 AM IST
For weeks now, Congress and the BJP have been clubbing each other over land allotments. The attack started with the Congress alleging that the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, had given large tracts of…
May 11, 2014, 9:44 AM IST
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another update on the proposed environment authority
March 26, 2014, 11:46 PM IST
Tasked by the Supreme Court with creating a new and independent environment authority, the Ministry of Environment & Forests wants to retain its say in choosing the panel of experts to vet projects, a Cabinet…
March 26, 2014, 11:46 PM IST
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The Follies of Rushing in
March 25, 2014, 11:13 AM IST
Yesterday was a busy day for people writing on Aadhaar. There was a sting by cobraport which flagged faulty enrolments by Aadhaar. If that was not enough, the Supreme Court also came out with a…
March 25, 2014, 11:13 AM IST
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On the environment regulator: an interview with William Lockhart
March 11, 2014, 7:56 PM IST
Following up on today’s story about the proposed environment regulator, we have uploaded an interview with William Lockhart, Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Utah’s SJ Quinney College of Law, re the proposed…
March 11, 2014, 7:56 PM IST
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On the proposed environment regulator
March 11, 2014, 9:21 AM IST
In a 2005 article in Nature magazine, titled ‘China’s Environment In A Globalising World’, Jianguo Liu and Jared Diamond rated 15 of the world’s most populous countries on environmental sustainability on a score from 1…
March 11, 2014, 9:21 AM IST
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Ten Years At Krishi Bhawan
March 7, 2014, 6:54 AM IST
a long time back, when i was a young reporter at businessworld, i had written my first story on agriculture. that was on fixing the mandis. i had met sharad pawar for that story. it…
March 7, 2014, 6:54 AM IST
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Real Coalgate: Too much coal in too few hands
June 13, 2013, 11:13 AM IST
So far, debates over Coalgate have been an exercise in selective attention. In the early days, most discussion pivoted around the UPA’s decision to allot blocks through the screening committee, and not auctions. The spotlight…
June 13, 2013, 11:13 AM IST
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A Trip to Southern Chhattisgarh
June 5, 2013, 7:05 AM IST
i am just back from a week in southern chhattisgarh. if you, dear reader, hail from india then you almost certainly know the context for this trip. late last month, left-wing extremists (naxals, for the…
June 5, 2013, 7:05 AM IST
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The Retreat Of The Elephants
May 8, 2013, 7:32 PM IST
Working on the hydel stories, thinking about how these dams will change the Brahmaputra, feeling the country will have to live with the consequences of these decisions for a long, long time, I am reminded…
May 8, 2013, 7:32 PM IST
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Contours of a Hydel Scam
May 7, 2013, 8:29 AM IST
(Note: This is a composite post aggregating all the stories ET did over the past week on the hydel scam in Arunachal Pradesh, a state in North-Eastern India) Between 2006 and 2009, the Congress government…
May 7, 2013, 8:29 AM IST
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The real contours of ‘Coal-Gate’
January 16, 2013, 10:16 AM IST
This post aggregates all the stories my colleague John Samuel Raja D, Avinash Singh and I did on ‘Coal-Gate’ between June last year and now. The articles were an attempt to understand ‘coal-gate’ in as…
January 16, 2013, 10:16 AM IST
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The Dov Ospovat book
June 19, 2012, 9:54 AM IST
This weekend, I finally finished reading Dov Ospovat’s “The Development Of Darwin’s Theory: Natural History, Natural Theology, and Natural Selection, 1838-1859”. Anyone who has read “The Origin Of Species” must have been struck by several paragraphs…
June 19, 2012, 9:54 AM IST
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Welcome to Anomalocaris
May 17, 2012, 2:33 PM IST
Matter begins: The final paragraph in “The Origin of Species” has to count amongst the most eloquent scientific passages. It starts gently: “It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many…
May 17, 2012, 2:33 PM IST
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