tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62272597967913460592024-03-11T08:54:15.528+05:30A touch of greenOf green and not-so-green thoughtsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger248125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-42417341180103252732021-03-26T12:48:00.001+05:302022-11-27T13:33:40.034+05:30India's transition to green energy is an opportunity to get it right<p> India has committed to transit substantially from fossil fuels to renewable energy. This is an opportunity to ensure that the legacy problems of fossil fuels do not affect renewable energy and the transition is just environmentally and socially. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2021/03/commentary-indias-transition-to-green-energy-is-an-opportunity-to-get-it-right/" target="_blank">MORE ...</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAggdmyzKoOa2nlIMXhI3sHTM27BaAbYIDMpyhZdrnw90QlBny_e9mjUdE-krEbKUre5UY3u7vU5OwaXKQObCCeN2RDa78utK3-6iCm-bkcZEHwmz4thQaLV8HvnVJdnR6Nx9269tHKkWKihUYk1GHK5gzbwvNW_uE6ac9ZXSmHFPtIdBMqHqGg605/s4128/20211113_115807.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3096" data-original-width="4128" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAggdmyzKoOa2nlIMXhI3sHTM27BaAbYIDMpyhZdrnw90QlBny_e9mjUdE-krEbKUre5UY3u7vU5OwaXKQObCCeN2RDa78utK3-6iCm-bkcZEHwmz4thQaLV8HvnVJdnR6Nx9269tHKkWKihUYk1GHK5gzbwvNW_uE6ac9ZXSmHFPtIdBMqHqGg605/w400-h300/20211113_115807.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-54288418585408887222021-03-01T08:23:00.007+05:302021-03-01T08:25:08.842+05:30City Scripts on covering climate change<p>On February 27, I spoke with environment journalists on covering climate change. This was at the City Scripts online conference organised by the Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Bengaluru. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=502945514435559&ref=watch_permalink" target="_blank">SEE THE VIDEO ... </a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg68L57O4RLPREYx9fPiCrWtw0XHKQyrogJa3ItEiOP-B02DKUUf2I7Z7MkWKCx3iDPHNt21DnHO2IilP0Y1bC7HmBaOP8Hf_HJqfSIhpK5jMKRiAV1Mui21U2xaEhaaOYYOl9oASeu2DY/s1208/IIHS+City+Scripts.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="1208" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg68L57O4RLPREYx9fPiCrWtw0XHKQyrogJa3ItEiOP-B02DKUUf2I7Z7MkWKCx3iDPHNt21DnHO2IilP0Y1bC7HmBaOP8Hf_HJqfSIhpK5jMKRiAV1Mui21U2xaEhaaOYYOl9oASeu2DY/w640-h312/IIHS+City+Scripts.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-2038936424121600202021-02-27T12:24:00.004+05:302022-11-27T12:35:36.803+05:30OL Nation: The Nilgiris, Todas and sustainable environmental action<p>It was a privilege to be invited by the Old Lawrencians Association (OLA) to participate and moderate in a discussion on the environment of the Nilgiris. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKQI8v2ZagU&t=2578s" target="_blank">SEE THE VIDEO ...</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga-szg19mvqm51_IodAt7PeAmLUReYb2eDgc4i-66u0xDHF9grDkYLyCEEDaMKJj6IP2uAIotL0IWgeXcnMth89KodSdG8QXtIoIWQDr8mSo2HcProUcVOKMr7ak7DjSlmWUBqyc49L-9_3ZufvKQG0J3psdUDp3D7AINv66IzbMJT6zIyRu6DaKB1/s732/2022-11-27%20(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="732" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga-szg19mvqm51_IodAt7PeAmLUReYb2eDgc4i-66u0xDHF9grDkYLyCEEDaMKJj6IP2uAIotL0IWgeXcnMth89KodSdG8QXtIoIWQDr8mSo2HcProUcVOKMr7ak7DjSlmWUBqyc49L-9_3ZufvKQG0J3psdUDp3D7AINv66IzbMJT6zIyRu6DaKB1/w640-h480/2022-11-27%20(1).png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-7796130520069736012021-02-05T12:47:00.001+05:302021-02-10T12:51:45.044+05:30What will be the environmental impact of the government's infrastructure push?<p> The government has launched an infrastructure push with the Union Budget. What will be its environmental impact considering that the government is also diluting environmental regulations. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2021/02/commentary-is-the-budgets-infrastructure-push-green/" target="_blank">MORE ...</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-80375902415390400222021-01-19T12:45:00.001+05:302021-02-10T12:47:32.395+05:30Indian environmental history for young adults<p> A new book explains Indian environmental history to young adults. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2021/01/book-review-indian-environmental-history-for-young-adults/" target="_blank">MORE ... </a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-15698576655535264902020-12-29T12:40:00.001+05:302021-02-10T12:43:11.878+05:30Editor's review of 2020<p> The year 2020 was a difficult one, with the COVID-19 casting its shadow over everything else. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2020/12/2020-review-packs-virus-controversies-wildlife-transitions-and-wetland-championss/" target="_blank">MORE ...</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-75419397505399403172020-12-08T12:37:00.001+05:302021-02-10T12:39:45.654+05:30Environmental issues behind the farmers' protests<p> There are strong environmental issues such as climate change behind the ongoing farmers' protests. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2020/12/environmental-issues-in-agriculture-a-silent-reason-behind-farmers-protests/" target="_blank">MORE ...</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-46906104625994405652020-10-16T12:33:00.001+05:302021-02-10T12:37:08.355+05:30Exploring the linkages between environment and music<p> In an interview with Rahul Ram, lead singer for the Indian Ocean Band, this piece explores the relationship between environment and music. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2020/10/video-in-conversation-with-rahul-ram-exploring-the-confluence-of-music-and-environment/" target="_blank">MORE ... </a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-1744797972931694512020-08-28T12:30:00.001+05:302021-02-10T12:43:38.203+05:30Onam links to the environment and economics<p> Onam, the harvest festival of Kerala, has strong linkages to the environment and the economy of this coastal state. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2020/08/onam-is-a-day-to-remember-the-environment-to-economics-connect-in-kerala/" target="_blank">MORE ... </a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-38455005745088894742020-05-22T12:25:00.001+05:302021-02-10T12:44:12.337+05:30With economic package the government misses green opportunity<p> The <span style="font-family: inherit;">economic package announced by the central government has missed the opportunity for </span>re-calibrating<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the development pathway. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2020/05/commentary-the-environmental-impacts-of-the-economic-package/" target="_blank">MORE ...</a></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-28196277225226091102020-05-01T12:08:00.001+05:302021-02-10T12:44:25.719+05:30The pandemic provides an opportunity for relaunching economy<p> <span style="font-family: inherit;">The COVID-19 is providing the government an opportunity to launch sustainability. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2020/05/commentary-in-a-pandemic-a-chance-to-make-indias-recovery-and-growth-equitable/" target="_blank">MORE ...</a></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-12838647262675207142020-04-05T13:04:00.001+05:302020-04-05T13:07:48.922+05:30Niazi’s gun and Auranagazeb’s sword <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Gen. J.F.R. Jacob was of two-star rank
during the 1971 Bangladesh War. You can see him watching over the signing
ceremony when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._F._R._Jacob#/media/File:1971_Instrument_of_Surrender.jpg">Gen
Niazi of Pakistan surrendered to Gen Aurora of the Indian Army</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In 1996, when India was observing the 25<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the Bangladesh War, Jacob wrote a piece in the Indian Express,
in which he recalled examining the revolver that Gen Niazi had surrendered. It
was an old, rusted one, certainly not the kind that would have been the
personal firearm of a general. This was the final joke that Niazi was playing
on India, Jacob surmised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">During a recent visit to the Victoria
Memorial Museum, Kolkata, I saw two swords. One was of Aurangazeb, with his
name inscribed on it, and the other of Mir Jafar, the general of the then Nawab
of Bengal Siraj ud-Daulah. Jafar is said to have betrayed Daulah that led to
the defeat of the last Nawab of Bengal in the Battle of Plassey in 1757. That
was the end of Mughal domination and beginning of the British Empire in India. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Museums of India record of Aurangazeb's sword. <a href="http://museumsofindia.gov.in/repository/record/vmh_kol-R10268-16659">http://museumsofindia.gov.in/repository/record/vmh_kol-R10268-16659</a></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Both Aurangazeb and Jafar used thin,
long, slightly curved blades. The non-cutting edge has a perpendicular
reinforcement to strengthen the cutting weapons. The handles would have been
the ultimate in ergonomic design of those days, because both were powerful men.
Aurangazeb’s grip is simple, whereas Jafar’s is made of ivory with stone inlay.
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<span lang="EN-GB">The victory at Plassey was the crowning
glory for Robert Clive, the man who started as a writer (clerk) in the East
India Company’s office in Fort St. George, Chennai. In fact, Clive and his
bunch of military adventurists were surprised at the ease with the Indian
kingdoms fell like dominoes in the 50 years between 1707 (when Aurangazeb died
and the decline of the Mughal Empire started) and 1757. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Clive was a colonel at
the time of Plassey, which is the equivalent of a unit commander in the
present-day Indian Army. And this man spearheaded the defeat of a large
country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">If any Indian power could have offered
resistance against this onslaught, it could have been the Marathas, who had by
then a group of kingdoms in their command. But then they were busy fighting
amongst themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">At the Victoria Museum, I saw the personal
weapons of two men – one who was the last custodian of the idea of India before
it was colonised, and the other who helped destroy this idea. The country had
to wait another 190 years before the idea could return. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">History is value neutral. It happened,
that’s it. But when we try to make sense of it we add value, prejudice and
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<span lang="EN-GB">In these recent years, when the
Aurangazeb Road in Delhi was renamed to A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Road, history
rewriters were punishing the Mughal Emperor for his atrocities against the
Hindus. Kalam was a nice man; affable, avuncular and with an ability to goad
youngsters to success. But as a historical figure he never was and never will
be a patch on Aurangazeb. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-19190495897667859152020-04-05T12:20:00.001+05:302020-04-05T12:24:03.475+05:30Three strands of the same braid<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The COVID-19 pandemic is braided together with the environment and the economy. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2020/03/commentary-it-is-not-covid-19-alone-but-also-the-environment-and-the-economy/">MORE ...</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A migrant helps a customer wash his hands in front of a supermarket in Chennai. </td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-54072609159081976672020-03-26T22:07:00.002+05:302020-03-26T22:07:15.335+05:30What is a forest - an explainer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Along with my colleague Aditi Tandon, I look at what is defined as forests in India. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2020/02/explainer-what-is-a-forest/">MORE ... </a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-17086964720926313052020-03-26T22:00:00.001+05:302020-03-26T22:00:02.588+05:30Environmental economics is a mature science today: Pavan Sukhdev<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
An interview with environmental economist Pavan Sukhdev, after he was selected for the Tyler Prize for environmental excellence. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2020/02/interview-green-economics-is-robust-enough-for-policy-makers-to-assess-impact-of-their-decisions-pavan-sukhdev/">MORE ...</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pavan Sukhdev.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-72854189242283998982020-03-26T21:42:00.002+05:302020-03-26T21:42:24.661+05:30Environmental reality as the economy goes to recession<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">An entire generation of environmental journalists have been covering stories about economic growth and the environment. With the economic recession continuing, journalists will need to look at the situation differently. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2020/01/editorial-environmental-reality-and-hope-in-the-time-of-economic-slowdown/">MORE ...</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The economic recession necessitates journalists to look at environment journalism differently. Photo SGW</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-40441023617717613592020-03-26T21:29:00.002+05:302020-03-26T21:29:06.686+05:30Editor's pick: The best stories from Mongabay-India during 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From national elections to extreme weather events, we covered it all on Mongabay-India. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2019/12/editors-pick-2019-elections-climate-change-and-extreme-weather-events/">MORE ...</a><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibXRJk78kSBZzHVD03CRzsWzhHhpqSVab9xjCUmou-3jPC6G5XlbI6Mj7V9dnv4NimihjlNr_41ML1HLgGwYm2c2dydy56NQwRnSB3xm9omiuRgJPUmRYkSunpgJuKSsOZYDWAm5GAC0/s1600/2020-03-26+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="1195" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibXRJk78kSBZzHVD03CRzsWzhHhpqSVab9xjCUmou-3jPC6G5XlbI6Mj7V9dnv4NimihjlNr_41ML1HLgGwYm2c2dydy56NQwRnSB3xm9omiuRgJPUmRYkSunpgJuKSsOZYDWAm5GAC0/s640/2020-03-26+%25281%2529.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A snapshot of stories from 2019.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-27638365431035175182020-03-26T21:20:00.001+05:302020-03-26T21:20:35.680+05:30Youth power at the climate change CoP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tired of the continuing discussions and </span>inaction<span style="font-family: inherit;">, the youth voice came to fore during the Madrid CoP. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2019/12/analysis-youth-discontent-comes-to-fore-as-the-real-madrid-discussions-fail/">MORE ...</a></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Eu7UQ7_N6ud3xGeYG6v0OilLMw2MN2Qe74y6QY5glTsMxQIve15fuEvhOkRS8u34SC17X_NXSPWCh-62v1sc9inxeKmfacSNd814db_Ge_aVNRrYzZQ2S5uGBYy30Dcv4UD8he_Kpao/s1600/2020-03-26.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="741" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Eu7UQ7_N6ud3xGeYG6v0OilLMw2MN2Qe74y6QY5glTsMxQIve15fuEvhOkRS8u34SC17X_NXSPWCh-62v1sc9inxeKmfacSNd814db_Ge_aVNRrYzZQ2S5uGBYy30Dcv4UD8he_Kpao/s320/2020-03-26.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swedish youth activist Greta Thunberg at the CoP. Pic courtesy UNFCCC</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-91184048691119228112019-10-24T05:22:00.001+05:302019-10-24T21:39:18.199+05:30Station 55<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP413KHbEXjo00Lhi6KFD6-qrQoYYk8v_aVq_T32MWq-8EJrIGuxr7lBqMo2WOjy7kVTy0WMvulxgmmT3pjeEpzDOmrGM_JIqsH4tL2y8YjCvek-p6r_43UnmL8Q8wvN9SeNlE-3iOeIg/s1600/Under+dog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1234" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP413KHbEXjo00Lhi6KFD6-qrQoYYk8v_aVq_T32MWq-8EJrIGuxr7lBqMo2WOjy7kVTy0WMvulxgmmT3pjeEpzDOmrGM_JIqsH4tL2y8YjCvek-p6r_43UnmL8Q8wvN9SeNlE-3iOeIg/s400/Under+dog.jpg" width="307" /></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This picture is enlarged and displayed on
the wall of my living room. I shot it in a monastery above Thimpu in Bhutan. I
was attracted by the nirvana-esque pose of the monk. I was captured by
something else too. I will come to that later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In the mid-1980s I started with student environmental
activism. The Sree Kerala Varma College in Thrissur was established in a palace
donated by the Kochi royal family. It has a sacred grove, which generations of
students called “Ooty”. When the college management wanted to cut old-growth
trees to build a wall, some of us students protested. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Even though our protest was unsuccessful,
it laid the foundation of ecological understanding in our group. One amongst us
went on to become the <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2018/11/interview-kerala-agriculture-minister-organic-and-natural-farming-will-give-farmers-self-reliance-and-climate-resilience/">agriculture
minister of Kerala</a>, and admitted to me later during an interview that the
roots of his ecological understanding began in those heady days between 1985
and 1987. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is this understanding that I took into
my work as an environment journalist and communicator. I belong to the second
generation of environment journalists in the country. We followed the pioneers
such as <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2019/03/obituary-india-loses-its-pioneering-environment-journalist/">Darryl
D’Monte</a>, Claude Alvares, Bittu Sehgal and Anil Agarwal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not as if environment stories were not
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activism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Some exceptionally talented and patient
mentors trained me early on in my working life. If </span><a href="http://gopi-warrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/nd-jayal-gentle-tiger-who-did-not-get.html" style="font-size: 12pt;">N.D.
Jayal</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> gave me the conceptual framework on India’s environmental issues,
Indira Ramesh, Rita Bhatia and Joe D’Souza also left their indelible imprint.
What they taught me was that it is not enough to understand environmental
linkages, but for the ideas to grow there was a need to pass it on to the
younger generation.</span></div>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><b>Three decades</b></span></h3>
</div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">From the mid-1980s to the present, our
generation experienced the country’s political economy undergoing major
changes. Rajiv Gandhi was the prime minister when I started working. He of the
“I am young, I too have a dream” quote, Rajiv put metrics into the development
process by initiating national technology missions. For the first time since
Independence, the National Technology Mission on Drinking Water computed how
many villages in the country did not have access to a safe water source. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Today it is fashionable to lay many of
the country’s past problems at Rajiv’s doorstep. However, in the summer of
1988, I saw one of Rajiv’s policy actions that prevented many human deaths. I
had joined Action for Food Production (AFPRO), a national-level NGO working on
water resources development as a communicator. AFPRO had established a field
unit at Udaipur in Rajasthan, in response to the fourth year of drought in the Aravalli
hills (1984-1988). Agricultural fields were bone dry, and cattle were dead at
multiple locations. Unable to maintain their livestock, farmers abandoned them
to die by the roadside, or in the fields. Despite the devastation, human lives
were not lost in the famine. The government’s food for work schemes ensured
that sustenance reached rural families. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">We lived the roller coaster years. We saw
the violence that followed the implementation of the Mandal Commission report;
the economic crisis that led to the implementation of the economic reforms; the
federalism (led by regional parties) of the United Front government; the BJP-led
governments of 13 days, 13 months and then a full term under Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee; the second nuclear test; the Kargil War; India failing in
its shine during the 2004 national elections; India’s economy growing when the
sub-prime lending crisis had tottered the US economy and many others in 2009; a
season for scams; the rise of the Aam Aadmi party; and the return of the
BJP-led government. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><b>Gandhi as the environmental icon</b></span></h3>
</div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">In the more recent years, we were witness
to Mahatma Gandhi becoming India’s official environmental icon. First it was
the <a href="https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/major_initiatives/swachh-bharat-abhiyan/">launch</a>
of the Swachh Bharat campaign on Gandhi Jayanthi in 2014, then it was the
announcement of the <a href="https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/submissions/INDC/Published%20Documents/India/1/INDIA%20INDC%20TO%20UNFCCC.pdf">nationally
determined contributions</a> that India made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
to the UN Climate Change Secretariat in 2015. By 2019 the integration was
complete, with the media talking about Mahatma Gandhi and national government’s
policies in the same breath. It is something like the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">itihasa-purana</i> of yore, where feudatories new to power validated
themselves through discovered or created lineages to the gods. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">In a sense it was an ironical justice to
the environmental discourse from the mid-1980s. In those days environmental
activists articulated a binary between Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
While Gandhi was seen as the ideal for everything small and sustainable, Nehru
was personified as somebody signifying everything large and destructive. The
famous environmental book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Temples or
tombs</i>, written by Darryl D’Monte in 1986, and looking at the adverse
environmental impacts of three industrial-scale projects, articulated this
dichotomy in its title.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">It is this divide that the post-2014
ruling establishment worked upon. They stretched Gandhism to mean everything
environmental and the environmentalists’ criticism against Nehru added
ammunition to their already-existing tirade against India’s first prime
minister. Ironically, in the process the government could clothe
environmentally-destructive projects in benign Gandhian ethics.
Environmentally, the Gandhian currency has changed hands – the old one demonetised
and the new one back with double strength, like the 2,000-rupee note. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><b>The tightening loop</b></span></h3>
</div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">The <a href="https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/paradigm-shift/article8870490.ece?homepage=true">paradigm
shift</a> in Indian environmentalism happened with the economic reforms of
1991. Till then, environment was a concern of rural and marginal communities
that fought to conserve their natural resources and also to prevent access to
their resources from being taken away from them. So was it when the Garhwali
women hugged trees in the Himalayas as part of the Chipko movement in the 1970s.
So too with the anti-Tehri dam and the anti-Narmada dam movements that were
active in the late 1980s and early 1990s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">However, the post-reforms social economy
changed this. The primary objective of the reforms process was to grow the
Indian economy through an increase in domestic consumption. It is then the
great Indian middle class was discovered. The business newspapers of the day –
both pink and white – articulated about the middle class in detail. It said
that with 250 to 300 million people, the Indian middle class was the size of
the US population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Irrespective of whether this number was a
reality or an overestimation, the truth was that the middle class felt pampered
after the economic reforms. With goods and services, and advertisers vying for
their attention, they discovered their economic voice, which later blended into
a political voice from the time of Anna Hazare’s fast in 2011, leading into the
national elections of 2014. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">In the meanwhile, environment too had
become an urban middle class concern. There were jobs to be had in the environment sector
– consulting, designing and constructing effluent treatment plants, green
economics, etc. New environmentalists also started using urban tools to fight
environmental battles – media campaigns, public interest litigation, internet
campaigns and even rap songs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">It is not as if the environmental issues
of the rural and marginal communities disappeared, but they were pushed to the
periphery of national consciousness. In the more recent years, environmental
issues of the voiceless have become further marginalised by strident
nationalism and national security. What are petty issues of natural resource
access and deprivation when the country is in danger (albeit more imagined than
real)? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">In the past three decades, I have had a
ringside view of these changes. In the 1980s, environment issues were the
concern of the tribals of the Narmada valley and the villagers of Garhwal. In
the 1990s, environment was a spanner in the nation’s dream of economic growth.
Journalists covering environment were the peripheral ones in every news bureau.
In the first decade of the 2000s, environment was a middle class concern,
whereas the issues of the marginal communities were pushed to the periphery. In
the second decade of the 2000s, the middle class bloomed with the sense of
their economic and political power. Environment got distanced – to be mentioned
as a paragraph sub-head in political manifestos. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">But nature did hit back. The changing
climate continues to return extreme weather events with a vengeance – with
increasing intensity and frequency. So much so that the cyclical monsoons are
gradually turning into a <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2019/09/commentary-is-indian-monsoon-turning-into-a-string-of-extreme-weather-events/">string
of extreme weather events</a>. From the point where environment was the
interest of a few in the 1990s, the feedback provided by the extreme weather
events has brought it as a concern for everybody. And for those affected by
floods in the recent years, the concern came destructively to their homes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">The extreme weather events of the recent
years have been providing increasingly stronger feedback loops. People are
connecting the linkages like never before in the past. Thus, when the
Maharashtra Government felled trees in the Aarey forest for a metro railway
shed, people of Mumbai led an unprecedented protest. Hit by floods multiple
times in 2019, the citizens of the business capital city have realised that the
trees and the mangroves play a very significant role in maintaining the
ecological balance in the megapolis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><b>Mentoring environment journalists</b></span></h3>
</div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">When I started, it was not fashionable to
be an environment journalist. We were the fringe in every publication. We lost
out on promotions and were scorned at by our colleagues. Those were the days of
the political, corporate and stock-exchange reporters. But a few of us trudged
on, changing job descriptions at times, but overall persisting with
environmental journalism and communication. Partially it was because we
believed in what we were doing, and partially because we were not capable of
doing anything else. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Today, environment journalism is an
established field in India. In my current assignment at <a href="https://www.blogger.com/india.mongabay.com">Mongabay-India</a>, I work with and am in touch with
some very fine, young environment journalists.</span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">There are multiple reasons for this
growth. Environment journalism is not an isolated genre any longer. Journalists
have successfully linked environment to politics and economics. This was the
way to go. These linkages have made environment stories relevant for the
readers.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">If the Kerala floods of 2018 led to a
loss of Rs 31,000 crores, it was a strong economic story, and was reported as
one. And when efforts to move the public discussions away from the floods <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2019/05/commentary-in-kerala-there-was-nothing-golden-about-this-missed-opportunity/">did
not yield political gains</a>, it was a political story. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Environmental journalism started getting
recruits when environment became an urban middle class issue. Environment could
be linked to health, lifestyle, fashion, tourism and gourmet food. Science
journalists have also transitioned to environment journalism in the recent
years. A science journalism programme organised by the National Centre for
Biological Studies has trained journalists, and some of them have blended science and environment.
Today, most of the journalism schools in the country have environment
journalism at least as an elective. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">The climate change events and the
international and national discussions attracted journalists into the field. A
continuing study by the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) at the University of Boulder in Colorado, US, has shown that
the Climate Change Conference of Parties held in Copenhagen in end-2009 attracted
the attention of international media. It had its reflection in India too. The
Paris CoP of 2015 also attracted attention, and more is happening in the recent months.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7gJOijt9IQk3Tf6akNoQEXNJtPZfYuE4kFuhnCQ6NSeDxqpRHa3_USntsPrw6bcjpH2IZeKCp5Z3e8LAc3x9VLJoPJu78aZ4ndszgwWZaGi0PfmQVl-nYG9yndO6yIsZNAMmrRdS6CZQ/s1600/191020+CSTPR+world+media+and+CC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7gJOijt9IQk3Tf6akNoQEXNJtPZfYuE4kFuhnCQ6NSeDxqpRHa3_USntsPrw6bcjpH2IZeKCp5Z3e8LAc3x9VLJoPJu78aZ4ndszgwWZaGi0PfmQVl-nYG9yndO6yIsZNAMmrRdS6CZQ/s400/191020+CSTPR+world+media+and+CC.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CSTPR graph on world media and climate change coverage. Source: <a href="https://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/icecaps/research/media_coverage/world/index.html" style="font-size: 12.8px;">https://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/icecaps/research/media_coverage/world/index.html</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span>
With repeated and intense extreme weather
events becoming an annual feature, the reader/viewer/listener interest on
climate change and the imperative to maintain ecological balance increased in
the recent years. This has given a boost to environment journalists.</div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">However, the most important factor for
the growth of environment journalism has been the steady supply of good quality
training for young journalists who want to pursue their interest in the
environment. Organisations such as the Earth Journalism Network, Centre for
Science and Environment, Panos South Asia, Nature India and the Forum of
Environmental Journalists in India have been systematically training
journalists on various facets of environment journalism for years. And this has
yielded results over the years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Having been associated with the last
three organisations in their training activities, I had the opportunity to
mentor a few of these young journalists, who have now become respected
practitioners in their own right.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span>
<br />
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8DX3IGy-KU-_W4XcikLOyZhouA6cq2zeAApD4xvl9SqIcasK1pVYguFtgiVuMTxq-rOvlYQlPBUJznnaVvyZ7E1r9tVEuzONKkHBV4mju_zw3zzyV9xE-jao_h1-ADo_mzZd0qhzst78/s1600/SACCA+2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="1079" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8DX3IGy-KU-_W4XcikLOyZhouA6cq2zeAApD4xvl9SqIcasK1pVYguFtgiVuMTxq-rOvlYQlPBUJznnaVvyZ7E1r9tVEuzONKkHBV4mju_zw3zzyV9xE-jao_h1-ADo_mzZd0qhzst78/s400/SACCA+2012.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the South Asia climate change media workshop in Kathmandu, August 2012.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><b>Don’t miss the underdog</b></span></h3>
</div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">At 23, when I started working, I wanted
to communicate complicated environmental issues in simple language. The dream
remains the same today. Every story, every act of communication along the way
was and is a step in this direction. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">And this is where the picture on my
living room wall becomes important. It continues to guide me with the message:
“Don’t miss the underdog.” (If you missed it at first, look again and you will
see the dog that I am referring to).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">You may also want to read </span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://gopi-warrier.blogspot.com/2015/07/station-50.html"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Station 50</b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The regularity of the monsoon is getting lost in the recent years, and what we seem to have is a string of extreme weather events. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2019/09/commentary-is-indian-monsoon-turning-into-a-string-of-extreme-weather-events/">MORE ...</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kerala was flooded in 20118 and 2019.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-42366690599963845312019-10-07T12:02:00.000+05:302019-10-07T12:02:02.683+05:30Did the budget miss the bus for building climate resilience for agriculture?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the second innings of the NDA Government, the first budget missed the opportunity for building climate resilience for Indian agriculture. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2019/07/commentary-did-the-budget-miss-the-bus-for-building-climate-resilience-for-agriculture/">MORE ... </a></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggFO2jA2wkoiUikPg_Gm1SRe07DwN2IbbPVxlSLPr8OXnn0vYFQ1KruMB81RyaJZfWqNzNDZTdQudb3yrwS8VDySm35SsOmPAYm7ie_LQhT9PWYcGfd5qWi1M8kqJnqhpdCPBDTIB3KUU/s1600/Screenshot+%25283%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="637" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggFO2jA2wkoiUikPg_Gm1SRe07DwN2IbbPVxlSLPr8OXnn0vYFQ1KruMB81RyaJZfWqNzNDZTdQudb3yrwS8VDySm35SsOmPAYm7ie_LQhT9PWYcGfd5qWi1M8kqJnqhpdCPBDTIB3KUU/s400/Screenshot+%25283%2529.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Impact of weather shocks on agriculture. Courtesy: Economic Survey 2017-18.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-11767479429825666922019-07-11T21:53:00.001+05:302019-07-11T21:53:46.133+05:30Chennai's water crisis once again exposes the city's climate vulnerability<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">With Chennai facing a severe drought this summer, it once again emphasises the importance of the waterbodies in the city. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2019/06/chennai-water-crisis-once-again-exposes-the-citys-climate-vulnerability/">MORE ... </a></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-9702599423561054842019-07-11T21:50:00.001+05:302019-07-11T21:50:43.210+05:30In Kerala there was nothing "golden" about this missed opportunity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
After extreme weather events there is a need for truth and reconciliation. The chaos in the state of Kerala after the Sabarimala judgement prevented introspection into the August 2018 floods. However, the election results did not go as the BJP would have wanted. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2019/05/commentary-in-kerala-there-was-nothing-golden-about-this-missed-opportunity/">MORE ... </a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-34347955315899746802019-03-30T21:36:00.001+05:302019-04-09T21:20:15.270+05:30N.D. Jayal: A gentle tiger who did not get his due in Indian environmental history<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB">In the summer of 1986, after the classes
and hostels of the Sree Kerala Varma College in Thrissur had emptied for the
holidays, there was an announcement by the college management that got my
friends agitated. The principal had given a statement to the local newspaper
that the college would be cutting some trees to build a compound wall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">The SKV College has a history. The campus
was once a palace for the Kochi royalty, which was later donated for the
college. The trees that the management had wanted to cut for the wall were
old-growth ones that were part of the sacred grove inside the palace. The trees
were part of the college's and the neighbourhood's history. In our youthful
idealism, a few of us students did not want the trees to be cut. We protested
and lost, but in the process I heard the name of N. D. Jayal (NDJ) for the first
time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">A few days into the campaign, I wrote a
letter to Sunderlal Bahuguna. We had heard of him and the Chipko Movement.
Bahuguna responded quickly, telling us of the importance of old-growth native
trees. A day later, I also received a letter from the Indian National Trust for
Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), signed by NDJ, supporting our action. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">We photocopied the two letters and
dropped them in the local offices of Malayalam and English newspapers.
Suddenly, from a bunch of impertinent boys protesting against the wisdom of the
college management to construct a compound wall, we became, in the eyes of
local reporters, a group of environmentally conscious students fighting
David-like to conserve old growth trees from the might of the college
management. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Sunderlal Bahuguna was well known with
journalists, and for INTACH the fact that Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s name
appeared as a patron on the official letterhead helped. “Prime Minister
supports students’ struggle against tree felling” ran one of the headlines in a
local Malayalam newspaper. Neither the journalists, nor I knew the importance
of the man – NDJ – who had signed the letter, and the role he had played with
quiet determination over years to protect India’s environment. I was to
understand that, first hand, a few years later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">N.D.Jayal in his garden chair. A water colour by Indira Ramesh. </td></tr>
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<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">I met NDJ for the first time five years
later in his INTACH office. He had an office with multiple glass windows
that stuck out onto the lawns of 71, Lodhi Estate. This was before the old
colonial bungalow was brought down for the present building. I had worked for
three years in the communication department of a national-level NGO, Action for
Food Production, and was looking for some action. I met NDJ in his book-lined office.
Indira Ramesh, who was to become my boss and mentor, took me to his room and I
was hired to work with them during that very meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">I wanted action and got much of it in the
two years that I worked with the Natural Heritage Wing of INTACH. I was in my
mid-20s and was awestruck to have been pushed into the vortex of the anti-Tehri
dam movement. We were also supporting the anti-Narmada dam movement. We had an
active publication programme, where we published environment books, booklets
and a newsletter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Gentle tiger</span></h3>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">From the time I met NDJ in his office in
1990, I was always impressed by the gentleness with which he spoke. But he
never pulled his punches. Perhaps it was a combination of his inherent nature
and decades of experience in the bureaucracy, NDJ always argued his case
softly, without ruffling feathers through a harsh note or a thoughtless word.
The mild exterior, however, always packaged strong arguments ruthlessly
delivered for impact. He was a gentle tiger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">NDJ had moved to INTACH after his
retirement from government service. Despite decades of rich experience he was
never overbearing towards us young people in his team. However, he was not kind
towards ignorant arrogance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">At a lunch, I heard one of our friends,
also in his 20s, tell NDJ that there was no administration in Arunachal Pradesh.
The friend used to work in the next-door office of the World Wide Fund and had
come to the rather momentous conclusion after a quick tour of Arunachal Pradesh
that lasted a few days. Perhaps he did not know that as a civil servant NDJ had
helped establishing the administrative structure in the north-eastern state. I
heard NDJ clearing his throat. Gentle bloodshed followed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When I was part of NDJ's team. Indira Ramesh is at extreme right.</td></tr>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;">
Facts based opposition</h3>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Since I was a general dogsbody in INTACH,
I used to coordinate media relations. The Tehri dam controversy that had gone
silent erupted again after the Uttarkashi earthquake of October 1991. NDJ
called for a press conference to bring back into the conversation the dangers
of constructing a 240-metre tall dam in the Himalayas, which was prone to
earthquakes. Due to the topicality of the subject, more journalists assembled than
expected. While some were veterans who had covered the issue in the past, many
were newbies who asked questions that took the discussions back to scratch. NDJ
answered them patiently, and did not digress from his arguments even while
facing provocative questions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Of essence for NDJ was an argument built
on facts rather than rhetoric. He had commissioned economist Vijay Paranjpye to
carry out traditional cost-benefit analyses of the Sardar Sarovar Dam and the
Tehri Dam projects. Both his studies were published as books by INTACH, and
they detailed how the costs of both the projects were higher than the benefits
that were to accrue from these projects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Using conventional cost-benefit analysis
methods, Paranjpye argued that the benefits were shown to be higher by the
project proponents because they had externalised the social and environmental
costs. The government did not accept the findings of the INTACH studies. But it
never refuted them either. By commissioning and publishing these studies, NDJ
took the anti-dam argument from the rhetorical “say no to dams” one to one
based on hard facts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Similarly, his arguments protesting the
construction of a high structure such as the Tehri Dam in the Himalayas, which
has the probability of being struck by an 8-plus magnitude earthquake, was
based on the opinion of well-known geologists. These arguments were also the
basis for the petition he filed in the Supreme Court, along with Shekar Singh
in 1991, against the Tehri Dam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">During that period the Natural Heritage
Wing of INTACH also commissioned the publication of a book on the biodiversity
of the southern Western Ghats, written by a well-known ecologist from Kerala,
Sathis Chandran Nair. NDJ’s friendship with Nair started during the days of the
Silent Valley controversy. Nair, who had extensively trekked the southern
Western Ghats region had collected persuasive data that proved that there was
reason to conserve the Silent Valley and prevent it from being destroyed by a
hydro-electric dam. NDJ, who then had an important official position in the
national government helped communicate Nair’s message to the policy makers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Nair’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The southern Western Ghats: A biodiversity conservation plan</i>,
published by INTACH in 1991 was a first of its kind assessment of the
importance of the biological diversity of the Western Ghats south of central
Karnataka to the Agasthyamalai Range near the tip of the peninsula and the need
for its conservation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">In the same period, INTACH also published
a book by Ganesh and Vasudha Pangare. While the rest of the country had not
realised the significance of the transition that a retired army driver – Anna
Hazare – had made to the conservation of natural resources of his village Ralegan
Siddhi, Pangare’s book documented it for the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">I had missed working on the Parajnpye
manuscripts, but was assisting Indira Ramesh with the editing and publication
of Nair’s and Pangares’ books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NDJ with Edward Goldsmith, editor of the <i>Ecologist</i>, when he had visited New Delhi in 1991-92.</td></tr>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;">
The Uttarkashi earthquake</h3>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">In 1990-91 NDJ and Indira had thought of
starting a monthly newsletter that would connect all the activists and kindred
souls supporting the anti-dam movement. I was assigned to make this happen. We
gathered in NDJ’s multi-windowed office to decide on the name for the
newsletter. We had by then decided its periodicity – once a month. The main
purpose of the newsletter was to focus on the Tehri Dam project, which was to
bridle Bhagirathi and Bhilangana rivers at the point where they meet. We called
our newsletter <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bhagirathi ki pukar </i>(Bhagirathi’s
call).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">After the Uttarkashi earthquake in 1991,
NDJ asked me go to Tehri to see first hand its impact. The aftershocks were
still continuing. Soldiers and Garhwali men were returning to their villages from
their employment posts in different parts of the country, to see what was lost
and to pick up from where the earthquake had left their lives. In villages,
there were men and children with shaved heads – having carried out the last
rights of the dear ones they had lost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Sunderlal Bahuguna was on a sit-in strike
at the site where the Tehri Dam came later. The killer earthquake, of course,
was no warning to those in power. The dam did come, and the tall column of
water continues to hold out its threat from the mountains. I travelled to
Silyara, where Vimala Bahuguna, Sunderlal’s wife and herself a leader of the
Chipko movement, made us as comfortable as she could under the circumstances. Simple
lives lived with stoic dignity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Lost in history?</span></h3>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">My window to NDJ’s professional life was of
a mere two-year span. It was looking and understanding a man of his experience
and achievement through a keyhole. However, I continued on the path that I had
set out on when I worked with NDJ. I continued being an environment journalist
and communicator. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">It was difficult times when I was
adventuring into environment journalism in the late 1980s and 1990s. Economic
liberalisation had just been launched in 1991, and media houses were competing
with each other to sing hosannas to the epochal change that would unleash the
growth that India deserved and was earlier being smothered under a Hindu rate
of growth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">To be an environment journalist in those
days was to assign myself to professional masochism, where everybody around me
happily called me an “obstructionist”. I persisted with the quiet determination
that NDJ had taught me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">As I went about my job of understanding
and reporting India’s modern environment history, I felt that somewhere NDJ did
not get the mention that he should have got for his contributions. For years he
was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s pointsman on environment. Many others who
held the same position in different parts of Indira Gandhi’s tenure had gone on
to become famous. This list included Manmohan Malhoutra, M.K. Ranjitsinh, Samar
Singh and R. Rajamani. History had not given its due to NDJ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">The only exception, and that too in 2017,
was former environment minister Jairam Ramesh’s environmental biography of
Indira Gandhi (Indira Gandhi: A life in nature. By Jairam Ramesh. Simon and
Schuster, 2017). Ramesh wrote that Jayal played an active role in the N.D.
Tiwari Committee that was tasked with recommending legislative measures and
administrative machinery for ensuring environmental protection. The
recommendations of the committee led to the establishment of the Department of
Environment in 1980, which later went on to become a full-fledged environment ministry.
Gandhi entrusted Jayal with missions that involved travelling to states and
studying and recommending corrective action on the environment – Bharatpur in
Rajasthan, Satkosia Gorge in Odisha, and Mahabaleswar-Panchagani in
Maharashtra. In 1982 Gandhi sent him to study the UK National Trust, an idea
that later developed into the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural
Heritage (INTACH). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">However, as Indira Ramesh’s chapter
elaborates, when NDJ retired from the government, he had ended only one part of
his achievement-filled life. There were far more achievements that followed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cover of the recently published book on NDJ. My blog is a chapter in this book. </td></tr>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;">
Papers for posterity</h3>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">In August 2015, I met NDJ at his home in
Dehradun. He was on his reclining chair in his room with books and filing cabinets
spreading across the walls. He asked me if I could think of a public
institution that would be interested in archiving for public and posterity the
environmental papers that he had collected over the years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">Why not the Nehru Memorial Museum and
Library (NMML)? His question had to hibernate the night for me to think of this
answer. NDJ found the idea good. I wrote an exploratory email to the then
director of NMML, an environment historian of repute. Within five minutes I got
a response. He was interested, and had also marked the official concerned in
his email. Those papers had a different destiny though. The director resigned
the next day, due to differences with the national government. I am given to
understand that NDJ’s papers have later made their way to a university where
future generation of researchers and students will have access to them. The
NMML director had moved to this university and ensured this transfer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyText">
<span lang="EN-GB">For NDJ, the priority was always to give
back to the society from which he had drawn. It was with this spirit that he
trained me in 1990-92. He also taught me another important life lesson – I didn’t
need to have a gruff voice to roar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>[I wrote this as a chapter in a recently-published book on NDJ, who turned 92 in February. The book was published by the Doon Library and Research Centre in Dehradun]. </b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6227259796791346059.post-5971012560595767022019-03-19T18:13:00.002+05:302019-03-19T18:13:22.720+05:30India loses its pioneering environment journalist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I started by reading his stories in the mid-1980s as a student. It enthused me to become an environment journalist. From the 1990s, he was my mentor and friend. My tribute to Darryl D'Monte. <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2019/03/obituary-india-loses-its-pioneering-environment-journalist/">MORE ...</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darryl D'Monte. Photo by Neeraj Khera. </td></tr>
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