INTERVIEW
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Issue 97
, 2020
Dr. Rajendra Singh, better known as Waterman of India (Jalpurush) and a winner of the Raman Magsaysay Award and the Stockholm Water Prize, has transformed drought-prone Rajasthan by rejuvenating the rivers of the state. Believing in a community-driven water management s...Read Full Story
Issue 92
, 2019
Mr. Arjun Dhakal has more than eighteen years of experience in the environmental and development sector. Throughout his professional career and academic background, he always concentrated in the areas of advocacy and research on Green growth and governance, public parti...Read Full Story
Issue 85
, 2019
Mike Pandey is an Indian film maker specializing in films about wildlife and the environment. He has won over 300 awards for his work to spread awareness about biodiversity and species conservation. Born in Kenya, the Nairobi National Park, which was at the back of the ...Read Full Story
Issue 83
, 2019
Dan Morrison is a part of a research by Orb Media which confirms the presence of microplastics in bottled water. Orb Media is a Washington DC based nonprofit news organization. He has written on science, conflict and culture for publications including The New York Times...Read Full Story
Issue 23
, 2010
After having worked for 2 years in Mumbai, for a company that made animated commercials,Priya Kuriyan,illustrator of Our Toxic World, moved to Delhi to work on animated educational films for the Sesame Street project. She began illustrating while she was in design sch...Read Full Story
Issue 19
, 2009
"The most popular lakes of NCR have disappeared. The 2 billion year old water bodies of the Aravallis – Surajkund, Badkhal and Damdama, have all dried up.An alarm had been sounded in the hydrological report submitted by the Ministry of Environment in its affidavit befor...Read Full Story
Issue 15
, 2009
Excessive rain fall, spilling of the banks of the rivers, drainage congestion, breaches in the embankments, roads, canals and other such structures lead to flooding. Dinesh Mishra, Convenotr , Barh Mukti Abhiyan, Bihar in conversation with Suparna Dutta...Read Full Story
Issue 12
, 2009
Dipesh Kharel is a Kathmandu based documentary film maker. His film` A life with Slate’ was screened in the Toxics Link film festival ` Quotes from the earth’ in last December. A Life with slate is a film, which is done differently from the conventional style. The film...Read Full Story
Issue 11
, 2009
Multimedia combines voice, animation, text, music, video and interactivity and is thus a powerful way of bringing a subject alive for students. Combine it with story-telling and gaming and voila you need not struggle too hard to teach Pinky the significance of global wa...Read Full Story
Issue 10
, 2009
Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith is the Co-chair of International POPs Elimination Network(IPEN). She has been working against POPs for decades. In this interview with Bindu Milton she shares her views on POPs...Read Full Story
Issue 9
, 2009
There should ideally be no conflict between food safety and food security. All stakeholders must do their best to ensure that one is not achieved at a cost for another, Pankaj Gupta in conversation with Toxics Alert....Read Full Story
Issue 8
, 2008
''Doors have opened and so have minds,'' says Usha ji, community mobiliser with Toxics Link's communities and waste programme, about the zero-waste community intervention in Defence Colony, in conversation with Toxics Alert....Read Full Story
Issue 5
, 2007
Ever since a sign-on campaign was launched in the month of March to allow citizens of Delhi to express solidarity with the demand to stop heavy felling of old neighbourhood trees in some of capital's greenest avenues to make way for High Capacity Bus Service corridor, m...Read Full Story
Issue 4
, 2007
Despite the failure of incineration-based projects in Hyderabad, Lucknow and Delhi, it seems to me that a proposal to set up such a project in Delhi should not be dismissed imperatively. With waste stacking up at the existing sites at levels higher than high rise buildi...Read Full Story
Issue 3
, 2007
According to an international spatial study data, the anthropogenic emission of mercury by India has risen by 27 per cent in the past decade, says Priti Mahesh, Programme Officer, Toxics Link, through this Q & A and asserts that it is now time for urgent measures...Read Full Story
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India's urban planners must recognise that there are cities around the world which have demonstrated policies that restrain use of personal vehicles and reverse automobile dependence, says Anumita Roychowdhury Associate Director, Research and Advocacy, Centre for...Read Full Story
Issue 1
, 2006
Free software is an embodiment of fight against monopoly of corporate power says Richard Stallman, who is popularly known as RMS, founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation in an interview with Dr. Abhay Kumar....Read Full Story
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