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Sunita Narain

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Delhi's Pollution Nightmare!
Rediff.com18 Nov 2024

Clean air needs action all year round; and that it will work only if we act jointly and...

Joshimath: There will be more disasters, accept it
Rediff.com17 Feb 2023

Each disaster has the same message: Learn to respect the mountains before you build...

Beware of Chinese honey!
Rediff.com26 Dec 2020

Chinese companies have 'designed' the sugar syrup which is used to adulterate honey so...

Paying farmers for not burning stubble is wrong
Rediff.com12 Nov 2020

To justify that farmers must burn if they are not paid cash incentive is doing...

COVID-19 is raging across the country
Rediff.com20 Aug 2020

'Governments have neither any idea of the source of the infection, nor a grip on the...

Every breath we take is poison
Rediff.com15 Nov 2019

'And for the developing lungs of our children, this should not be tolerated. Not at...

Why vegetarianism is not all that great an idea for India
Rediff.com26 Jan 2019

Indian farmers practise an agro-silvo-pastoral system and that livestock is a crucial...

How best to tackle India's water crisis
Rediff.com13 Jul 2018

The tragedy is not the inevitable drought or the inevitable flood. It is our inevitable...

The human price of climate change
Rediff.com14 May 2018

What are the most worrisome aspects of climate change for India? Can they be solved?

Sorry, there are no quick fixes for Delhi's toxic smog
Rediff.com13 Nov 2017

The air pollution problem in the national capital won't go away till we take action --...

A thousand mutinies over garbage
Rediff.com24 Sep 2017

What will Indian cities do about its growing mountains of waste?

How to make the people use toilets
Rediff.com18 Aug 2017

Lack of sanitation is leading to avoidable deaths of infants, and underweight and...

How NOT to celebrate Environment Day
Rediff.com12 Jun 2017

Growing and harvesting trees for productive and economic uses are once again dead in...

Time has come to correct what's wrong in meat production market
Rediff.com29 May 2017

We need to clarify the rules for legal slaughterhouses and make sure that these can be...

The truth about Swachh Bharat
Rediff.com5 May 2017

Building toilets, however essential, must not be confused with sanitation and the...

Why the fuss over BS-IV vehicles is quite meaningless
Rediff.com17 Apr 2017

The fact is that BS-IV vehicles, particularly diesel trucks, are much less polluting...

Why I would not support a ban on meat
Rediff.com4 Apr 2017

Banning meat is cruel demonetisation. It is stealing from the poor, nothing less,...

Maybe we need to 'shut down' Delhi
Rediff.com26 Dec 2016

'It is clear that nature is not in a mood to give us leeway to be lazy, inefficient or...

They still won't say the 'C' word
Rediff.com16 Dec 2016

Donald Trump denied it. Hillary Clinton avoided saying it. But the Climate Change...

Why we can't breathe
Rediff.com28 Nov 2016

We need to know that the sources of pollution and the action to be taken are known. But...