Pollution and Patriarchy in Tribal India
In tribal India, violence against the environment and women are connected and part of the country’s dispossession-driven capitalism.
There are No Win-Win Solutions
Indian conglomerates rushing to invest in renewable energy obscure dirtier practices of ecological damage and labour injustice.
The Romance of Revolution in Emergency-Era Delhi
As many today struggle against an undeclared BJP-led Emergency in India, a reflection on the fight against Indira Gandhi’s Emergency — and the role of love.
Orientalizing Environmentalism: Green Movements in India
Millenial-led environmental movements in India fall prey to imitating their Western counterparts. If environmentalism is to have any success in the country, we need a more vernacular environmentalism.
Pandemics and Hunger: Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic in India
It wasn’t the influenza virus alone, but the agricultural exploitation imposed by colonialism which devastated India in 1918.
No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (II)
A GND which fails to challenge the hegemony of growth-led development perpetuates the exploitation of the Global South and will be unable to prevent global ecological social collapse.
No Harm Here is Still Harm There: The Green New Deal and the Global South (I)
Without accounting for globalized production, a Green New Deal in the Global North will merely spur the imperialist quest for cheaper resources and labour to satisfy “eco-friendly” consumption.
Sri Lanka’s Tamils Trapped Between War and Waste
Sri Lanka's environmental progress depends on its treatment of its minority Tamils, who have suffered for decades under majoritarian rule
Militarism is a Destructive Public Health Response to the Pandemic
Across South Asia, regimes have responded to the pandemic with even more militarism. This must end.
Ecologies of Emancipation: The Mukti Bahini, Rivers and the Unravelling of Pakistan
Peasant guerrillas from the Mukti Bahini used their intimate ecological knowledge of Bangladesh’s waterways to liberate the country.
Why are Healthcare Workers in Lahore on Hunger Strike?
Lack of testing and PPE has left healthcare workers at the mercy of COVID-19, while the government moves only to criminalize their protests.
COVID-19 Comes to Polluted Lahore
Lahore’s terrible air quality has prepared the ground for the novel coronavirus to do unspeakable amounts of harm. In coming out of this crisis, we must insist that the city’s deadly air pollution be cleaned up.