The Sacred Cycle: Marico’s Plastic Neutrality as a Modern Yajna
In the Vedic tradition, the concept of Pancha Bhoota – the five elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space – teaches us that the environment is not a resource…
Environmental Amnesia
Why We No Longer Remember What “Clean” Looked Like Consider the last occasion when you beheld a most crystal-clear river – one that you could count the pebbles in at…
The Gasping Capital: Delhi’s Eternal Winter of Discontent
As the morning sun struggles to pierce through a leaden sky, the residents of Delhi-NCR find themselves locked in a now-permanent seasonal ritual: living through a haze. What was once…
The Frothing Giant: Can Bengaluru Ever Reclaim Bellandur Lake?
Bengaluru was once the crown jewel of the Vrishabhavathi valley, a sprawling 360-hectare expanse of freshwater that sustained agriculture and recharged the city’s parched aquifers. Today, Bellandur Lake stands as…
Shifting Baseline Syndrome: How Environmental Decline Becomes Normal
Each generation inherits the world as they find it. What seems normal to them may have been unthinkable to their parents – and what they accept as inevitable might shock…