Sustaining Sanitation

With the Prime Minister riding high on the publicity of the Swachh Bharat Mission, clean India seems to be an achievable dream today, but statistics say otherwise.

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Cross Country Cinema

Bengali director Kaushik Ganguly's Bishorjon opens with Padma, a Hindu Bangladeshi, finding a wounded Nasir Ali, a Muslim Indian lying unconscious on the banks of ...

The River That Tamil Nadu Often Forgets

For four days in July-August, which is the Tamil month of Adi, there is a festival at the temple on the hills just downstream of the Karaiyar dam across the River Tamirabar...

The Fate Of 'America's First River' Is The Focus Of A New Film Series

Home to America's 'First River,' the Hudson region of New York has a well-earned reputation as the birthplace of the country's environmental movement. From the early Hudson...

Born A Cremator: An Indian Boys Fight For An Education

The night Yogi Choudhury's father died, the teenager was asleep in his boarding school. His older brother had travelled some three hours along a dirt track to find the scho...

Putting Child Rights at the Heart of Climate Talks

“Whatever land my father had and the house he had went under the water in the river erosion and that’s why my parents decided to get me married,” said Sul...

In Kaziranga, An Orphanage Raises Baby Rhinos Till They’re Ready To Go Back Into The Wild

Last year, raging monsoon floods submerged nearly 80% of Kaziranga National Park. Unable to access drier highlands in time, more than 450 animals – including 26 rhino...

Varanasi: A Journey Beyond The Within

The first impression of this “holy” city were singular moments of “unholiness” tied together by exasperation and a tense feeling of confusion. As we...

This Village By Ganga Nurtures Jawans

The Abdul Hamid Bridge, named after the 1965 war’s Param Vir Chakra awardee, transports people beyond the Ganga and towards Gahmar. If the vast expanse of the river m...