Proloy Bagchi

A more than a century old organisation now appears to be tired and, from all accounts, needs rejuvenation. A new life needs to be infused into it

Post economic liberalisation India's middle classes have been doing very well but the poor have remained where they were unless they sank deeper into hunger and malnutrition

Acute human pressure on the Bhoj Wetland has driven away most of the migratory birds that used to flock around it threatening its Ramsar Status as also it status a s an Important Bird Area

The Dow Chemical was not connected with the Union Carbide Corporation when the Bhopal Gas Tragedy occurred in 1984 or when final settlement was arrived with it at the Indian Supreme Court in 1989. The UCC became a subsidiary of Dow only in 2001

With millions of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and millions of Nepalese along with hundresds of thousand of South Asian refugees India is weighed down by foreigners

Paid news has become a scourge for the country. Sponsored news items are threatening its democratic set-up

With rising urbanisation and increasing concern for conservation of the environment the concept of green construction is slowly catching up

The mad rush for double digit GDP growth has caused problems for India. Not only it has given rise to unprecedented corruption, it has also spread the sweep of poverty, hunger and under-nourishment

Excessive tourism pressure and absent efforts at its conservation are killing a thousand-year old lake

The Central Indian tiger reserve of Panna lost all its tigers to poachers not too long ago, A few tigers have since been relocated from elsewhere. But they too are not safe as nothing much has changed in respect of security of the tigers in the reserve since it lost all of them.