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This is Rinchen’s story.
It is the end of September 2025, and we have just completed a 60 km hike into the Kiyar Naala, deep within Kishtawar National Park. Walking between 7–10 hours a day, navigating trails washed out by recent floods, and camping in makeshift huts left behind by the Bakharwaals (pastoralists), we gained 1,500 metres in altitude. Al...
Mumbai experienced a massive flood in 2005. Our tent settlement was near a bridge, and the floods surrounded our settlement in debris. My father was stranded for nearly three days, developing multiple infections, and eventually passing away. We belong to Ghisadi Gadia Lohar community, a denotified tribe that makes tools and weapons from iron. My father was the primary craftsm...
Last week, a friend sent me a well-argued and passionate article on systems change by Anurag Behar, CEO of Azim Premji Foundation.
Most people understand systems change as measures taken—usually by civil society providing expertise or project...
Iqbal,* 35, was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in 2022. Beyond the physical and mental toll of his illness, he and his family had a lot of decisions to make. His wife, Neena,* would soon become the primary breadwinner and caregiver to their two young children. Iqbal hadn’t prepared a will, and his assets were in limbo. Moreover, he did not wish to inform his parents of h...
On the highway connecting the cities of Dharmanagar and Kailasahar in Tripura, roadkill is a common, unfortunate sight. Due to the state’s hilly terrain and dense vegetation cover, major roads cut through its forests. Moreover, settlements located near these roads, and along wildlife corridors and buffer zones, have often placed humans in contact, and in