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The Unity Mall at Chimbel: How Gross Can Government Decision-Making Get? If the Tourism Department’s press note is to be believed, the Unity Mall project and its sister project, the Prashasan Stambh, have now exited the boundaries of Chimbel village. That retreat itself tells a larger story — one of deeply flawed government decision-making. The amazing […]
By just one yardstick alone – simultaneous book release in 9 different Indian languages, including English – the publication of Madhav Gadgil’s A Walk Up The Hill is unprecedented. Gadgil translated the Marathi edition himself, since he writes and thinks with equal facility in both languages. The other editions include Konkani, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, […]
For several years, one was always under the impression that climate change was a thing of the future, something that the next generations would face, perhaps in the next century, by which time we would all be safely dead! The monsoons always hit with regularity around June 5, give or take a day or two. […]
The most stunning declaration of what the idea of Goa stands for came from an unusual source: the Bombay High Court, sitting at Panaji, through a judgment of the learned Justice Gautam Patel on the 11th of October 2017. Faced with the extent of environmental litigation in Goa, Justice Patel wrote in eloquent language oft […]
In his book, Naturally: Tread Softly on the Planet, Prof. Vikram Soni attempts to open, in his own words, “an unorthodox debate on the present predicament” facing the planet’s natural environment.1 Prof. Soni’s concern is the unprecedented disruption of the earth’s ecosystems, reflected in serious species losses, by the present dominant industrial model of organising […]
SIMPLY because we worry about a mountain range, is it going to die? Can the Alps or the Andes perish through excessive human tampering? Can human footprints destroy the Himalaya? At first glance, such scenarios appear impossible, even inconceivable. But don’t we destroy rivers? Have we not already destroyed some? Developed India through its dams […]
I am surprised that every year hordes of people are still getting drawn into the university circus, filling in forms, chewing fingernails before entrance tests, celebrating entry into this college or that, into this course or that. This is despite the evidence that there is no confirmed connection between degrees and jobs. The astonishing aspect […]
I am thankful to the organizers for giving me the privilege to address colleagues and friends of S.M. Mohamed Idris at this meeting called to commemorate his passing. Memorial functions should be occasions for celebration, for poetry, for stories, and for drums, song and dance. Also, it helps if in this case one makes the […]
While most people who are concerned about the mining industry and its toll on Goa’s environment are aware of the work of activists like Ravindra Velip or Ramesh Gauns, few know of Shankar Jog who passed away last week (9 July 2018) at his home in Sacordem, Goa.
(Note: This article is not about giving anyone a sponge bath. But it’s about cleaning up your family networks of purposeless cash lying around in those quarters which, if not salvaged and used for your personal learning and liberation, will invariably get squandered on some new discount racket at the mall next door or Ponzi […]