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The land that remained unsubmerged after the dam was built has now transformed into an island, becoming a key tourist attraction of Dumboor Lake.

Dumboor Lake: When Fields Sank and Farmers Became Fishers in Tripura

10 Oct 2025

8 min read

Fishermen of Kabartal taking tourists around in the remaining water of the lake.

Rivers and Lakes

Who has the right to Kabartal? Bihar’s Kanwar lake is shrinking under caste-based influence

22 Sep 2025

7 min read

Amit Godse, a Pune based bee conservationist

Buzzing Back To Life: An interview with Amit Godse, India’s bee rescuer

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

19 Sep 2025

10 min read

Flash floods in Uttarakhand

Cloudbursts, landslides, and floods: Why Uttarakhand’s fragile Himalayas are breaking under pressure

30 Aug 2025

5 min read

Ziro valley's rice farming

Fish, fields, and feminism: How Apatani women sustain Ziro’s aquaculture in Arunachal Pradesh

22 Aug 2025

5 min read

A bustling scene at Sassoon Dock Market, where Koli women, dressed in vibrant sarees, are seated with baskets filled with fresh fish. The air is filled with the sounds of bargaining as customers select their daily catch.

A day in the life of Mumbai’s Koli women: From dock to market

Sharat Chandra prasad

28 Feb 2025

7 min read

Pilgrims taking a dip at the confluence of the Sangam.

Can we celebrate Kumbh while ignoring the health of its rivers?

Sharat Chandra prasad

19 Feb 2025

6 min read

Grazing fields in a village in Ladakh

Role of traditional institutions in natural resources management in Ladakh

23 Nov 2024

4 min read

A woman stands in the Bagmati River, offering her prayers to the rising sun on the second day of Chhath Puja. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Chhath Puja - A celebration of sun, rivers, and community in changing times

Sharat Chandra prasad

04 Nov 2024

4 min read

Equality and equity concept illustration (Image: juliabatsheva; publicdomainpictures.net)

EquiLead 2024: Forging paths to gender equity

11 Aug 2024

3 min read

Bhuj's fight for land rights (Image: Rita Willaert, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

PMAY paradox: Policy gap leaves Bhuj's poor homeless

Homes in the City

29 Jul 2024

3 min read

Building the resilience of women farmers (Image: ICRISAT, Flickr Commons)

Empowering women through socio-technical innovations

Radheshyam Jadhav

16 May 2024

5 min read

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