Category Urbanization, Habitat, Transportation and Regional Development

EPAYF

Fellows Blog List and Details: EPAYF Environment Policy and Action Youth Fellowship- Cohort 3.0

EPAYF Environment Policy and Action Youth Fellowship- Cohort 3.0 | Theme: People, Power & the Planet: Reimagining Environmental Policy for a Just and Equitable Future | A Three-Month Online Immersive Introductory Leadership Certificate Training Fellowship Program | Dec 2025-Feb 2026 | IMPRI #WebPolicyLearning EPAYF Program Details…

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Rethinking Water Management in Rajasthan: The Interplay of Policy Inefficiencies and Technological Interventions

This article examines the ever-existent problem of water scarcity in Rajasthan with a special focus on the district of Barmer, and its direly grave socio-economic implications on agriculture, health, and education. In their periods of water shortages, the systems and policy frameworks in place fail to uphold themselves perpetuating the unending cycle of poverty.

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The Unjust Climate: How History, Faith, and Power Shape our Planetary Crisis

The climate crisis, often framed as a purely scientific or technological challenge, is in reality a deeply entangled web of social, political, ethical, and historical issues. While global temperatures continue to rise, threatening ecosystems and human livelihoods, a critical paradox persists: those who have contributed least to the problem often bear its heaviest burdens.

Legacy

When Legacy Becomes a Commercial Externality, Who Pays to Preserve It?

TK Arun As Annapurna Bhandar of Chandini Chowk faces closure, can Indian cities take a cue from Paris or San Francisco to protect legacy shops? When a sudden rent increase forces a thriving commercial establishment — that has a century-old…

Tribal

The Decline of Maoism and Its Impact on Tribal Communities

The Maoists might have been looking after their own interests more than those of the tribal people, and hindering State efforts to extend the scope of governance and development to their habitats, but they also raised a voice of protest against acts of injustice against the tribals.

Air

The Air That Betrayed Me: A Personal Reckoning with Delhi’s Toxicity

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Across the US and Europe, white ribbons mark solidarity with patients, caregivers, advocates and doctors. In India, silence reigns, even though 93 of the world’s 100 most polluted cities are here, and here, lung cancer is rising alarmingly among non-smokers, especially young women.

Nearly one in three lung cancer patients in India today has never smoked, and doctors are seeing women in their late 20s and 30s being diagnosed with advanced disease.

This is not a smoker’s disease anymore — it is a breather’s disease, driven by toxic air and environmental exposures.

Airports

How to and How Not to Privatise Airports

Airports are local monopolies, for the most part. Who gets to operate them and on what terms matter to the public at large. Sure, there is a regulator, the Aeronautic Economic Regulatory Authority of India to regulate aeronautical and other charges at any given airport.

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