
Twenty-eight states, eight union territories and the most pressing environmental conflict in each. Thirty-six is a newsletter by our Chaos team on countless ecosystems in flux across India.
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Pradip is a co-founder at The Morning Context and leads our newsletters vertical. He has previously worked at The Ken as a staff writer, at Mint as an assistant features editor and the Deccan Chronicle as a copy editor. He works with a slew of expert newsletter writers across subjects and domains. His own writing spans the gig economy, farmers caught in the crossfire of technology, global warming and parents trapped in the edtech wave. Some of his best stories have come at the intersection of technology and human endeavour.
After addressing environmental issues through the prism of conflict, it is time for this newsletter to tackle a broader range of subjects.
While a CAG audit finds inadequate implementation of safety measures to be a reason, experts feel fatalities are unavoidable and can, at best, be minimized
15 Dec 2021
SC and CAG deliver stinging indictments on the company’s record of complying with environmental norms and misleading the public.
08 Dec 2021
For years, city and state governments have let raw sewage pour into lakes, rivers and the sea, harming public health and the environment. The National Green Tribunal has now started to impose penalties.
01 Dec 2021
The Kaiser-i-Hind, which recently got state butterfly status, could prove useful in measuring the success of the northeastern state’s efforts to get its environmental act together.
24 Nov 2021
Study cited in its affidavit did not include data from October, when crop residue burning activities peak.
17 Nov 2021
Study finds that four years on, the Graded Response Action Plan has done nothing to clean up the air in the National Capital Region.
10 Nov 2021