The novel coronavirus outbreak has, among other things, cast in sharp relief one of the downsides of the illegal wildlife trade: the heightened risk of zoonotic spillovers. One important subset of...
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Why the Etalin Hydroelectric Power Project Is Flawed
Hydroelectric dams have been polarising for some time now, mostly because of where they’re located. In the Dibang valley, in Arunachal Pradesh, the Indian government has been planning to set up the...
India’s Environmental Laws Require a Fundamental Shift
Environmental clearance at the national level is overseen by an Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC), which functions on an ad-hoc basis, without much regulatory capacity. The EAC has been questioned on...
India Needs a New Health Policy — State Response to Covid-19 Makes it Clear
It is when India invoked a colonial law Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 to fight coronavirus, most people realised that it is still in the books. A 2020 pandemic in the Information Age does not require...