COVER STORY
In recent times, climate disasters have served as social unveilings and much of the brunt of it all has been borne by those who are poor.
Outlook Magazine - 21 July 2024
Climate Injustice
A searing anthology of eco-poems edited by Vinita Agrawal strips down to the bone the environmental crisis.
To address the climate crisis in ways that serve the large majority of Indians, we must tackle the age-old questions of caste, class, religion, and gender-based oppression
How do people who are the most vulnerable to the consequences of climate change cope with it?
How global warming changes the lives of Indians, and the unequal ways it affects the population
It is time to improve communication on the most dangerous crisis the world is facing: climate change
Everyday objects hold in themselves a multitude of stories, each telling of the climate change exasperated divide between the haves and have-nots of the world.
Dalit women working as farm labourers bear the extreme brunt of the climate crisis and escalating temperatures. This visual project documents their stories, which are a powerful testament to the fact that there can be no climate justice without social justice
Independent journalist and author Sopan Joshi spoke to Snigdhendu Bhattacharya about the challenges of explaining the science of climate change to ordinary people. Excerpts:
While the climate crisis spells doom for everyone, its impact does not hit everyone equally
A searing anthology of eco-poems edited by Vinita Agrawal strips down to the bone the environmental crisis.
To address the climate crisis in ways that serve the large majority of Indians, we must tackle the age-old questions of caste, class, religion, and gender-based oppression
How do people who are the most vulnerable to the consequences of climate change cope with it?
How global warming changes the lives of Indians, and the unequal ways it affects the population
It is time to improve communication on the most dangerous crisis the world is facing: climate change
Everyday objects hold in themselves a multitude of stories, each telling of the climate change exasperated divide between the haves and have-nots of the world.
Dalit women working as farm labourers bear the extreme brunt of the climate crisis and escalating temperatures. This visual project documents their stories, which are a powerful testament to the fact that there can be no climate justice without social justice
Independent journalist and author Sopan Joshi spoke to Snigdhendu Bhattacharya about the challenges of explaining the science of climate change to ordinary people. Excerpts:
While the climate crisis spells doom for everyone, its impact does not hit everyone equally
OTHER STORIES
India’s brick kiln workers are paying for the country’s construction boom in scorching temperatures, with little safety precautions and minimal wages.
People’s movements to protect the environment are making major strides from Kashmir to Kerala
Thajiwas, once a large glacier extending to Sonamarg, has receded 12-15 metres annually since the 1960s due to insufficient winter snowfall, higher summer temperatures
Global warming is severely affecting farming and leading to disasters, displacement and migration in Uttarakhand
This piece is an outcome of my struggle to comprehend the times I inhabit. They are based on encounters in a fishing village near Pondicherry (Puducherry), where fishermen friends helped/are helping me navigate new waters. The ever-changing sea led me to these explorations. There is urgency in the air. Else, all will be still
Mumbai’s original residents, the fishing community, is struggling to stay afloat amid frequent storms, warmer temperatures, rising sea level, reduced catch and illegal technology
Incessant mining in Jharkhand has led to large-scale deforestation, resulting in long and warm summers and shifting of the monsoon
A visit to a few bastis in Delhi proved that women are disproportionately impacted by climate change
When nature faced an existential crisis, Bollywood’s storytellers found other greener pastures
Women, girls, workers, Dalits, mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, babies, followers: who were the victims of the Hathras satsang stampede?
While it’s being touted as the answer to India’s case pendency problems, the new criminal laws are likely to do the opposite
Beneath Labour’s supermajority of 412 seats, there are worrying undertows
Boudhayan Mukherjee, a bilingual poet and translator, writes two poems for Outlook
