‘Only Gandhi Wrote About Paupers’

Perhaps no other scholar in the social sciences has studied India’s poor and its informal economy as intensively as Jan Breman. The sheer temporal span of his researc...

The UN’s Sustainability Plan Is ‘Doomed,’ According to Linguistic Analysis.

The UN will launch its 2030 Sustainable Development agenda at the end of this month in New York City, where it will be formally adopted by over 150 world leaders after year...

These Ecuadorians Want to Seize Chevron's Canadian Assets

The villagers are trying to collect on a nearly $10 billion judgement by Ecuador's courts against Chevron, claiming they suffer from lingering health problems from toxic oi...

Why Is India Dragging Its Heels Over The Criminalisation Of Marital Rape?

When I started looking into the issue of marital rape in India, I soon realised how difficult it would be to get anyone to talk. It is a touchy subject, because there is st...

Climate change is not just an environmental issue

Ed Miliband

Tackling global warming is not just a global responsibility, argues the leader of the Labour party, it?s an economic necessity for Britain he general ...

Harvard's high-profile alumni join fossil fuel divestment campaign in open letter

University faces hearing in a lawsuit that argues Harvard has a duty to fight climate change by dumping fossil fuel companies from $36bn endowment Some of Harvard’s m...

2014 Brought Lasting Action On Climate Change Policy

Some of the stories that gripped our attention in 2014 will probably be forgotten in a few years ? if not a few weeks. But there's one story that President Obama argues we'...

Can TV Save India?

But in the 1990s, cable television arrived and private channels like Star Plus and Zee TV popped up — and quickly started catering to the lowest common denominator. T...

Top 10 ways to save ourselves from global warming

I know some of you don?t believe it and others have come to the conclusion there is nothing we can do, but the simple truth is the gas has been turned on, the fire lit and ...