Thirty-six

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 K. Saha

Pradip K. Saha

Pradip K. Saha

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.

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To farewells and new beginnings

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Why elephants keep getting hit by trains

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

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Posterboy DMRC’s environmental track record found wanting

SC and CAG deliver stinging indictments on the company’s record of complying with environmental norms and misleading the public.

08 Dec 2021

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Why Uttar Pradesh needs to pay Rs 176 crore for polluting the Ganga

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

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A butterfly as a bellwether in Arunachal Pradesh’s fight against climate change

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

Older Editions

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Government misled Supreme Court on stubble burning impact

Study cited in its affidavit did not include data from October, when crop residue burning activities peak.

17 Nov 2021

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Why the government’s plan to tackle air pollution needs an urgent review

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