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Collective Dreaming

Vol. 54, Issue No. 34, 24 Aug, 2019
Ashish Kothari

The process of Vikalp Sangam (Alternatives Confluence) involves visioning of an ideal built on grounded initiatives, spanning the full range of alternative approaches to justice, equity, and sustainability. The focus is on India, but the lessons and visions emerging are relevant globally. It attempts to document, network, and create collaborations amongst movements and groups involved in such alternatives.

Situating Agroecology in the Environment–Development Matrix

Vol. 53, Issue No. 41, 13 Oct, 2018
Nandan Nawn, Sudha Vasan, Ashish Kothari

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We Are the River, the River Is Us

Vol. 52, Issue No. 37, 16 Sep, 2017
Ashish Kothari, Shrishtee Bajpai

As per the recent ruling of the Uttarakhand High Court, the Ganga and Yamuna rivers have rights as a “juristic/legal person/living entity.” It raises a complex set of questions. What does it mean for a river, and its associated natural elements, to have rights? What does it mean for them to have rights as a “person?” How would such rights be implemented, given that rivers and other elements of nature would not be able to claim and defend such rights for themselves? What implications do these two decisions have for not just the rivers and those living in/on/along them, but for the relationship between humans and the rest of nature? This article addresses these questions in order to find solutions.

Rivers and Human Rights: We are the River, the River is Us?

Vol. 52, Issue No. 35, 02 Sep, 2017
As per the recent ruling of the Uttarakhand High Court, the Ganga and Yamuna rivers have rights as a “juristic/legal person/living entity.” It raises a complex set of questions. What does it mean for a river, and its associated natural elements, to have rights? What does it mean for them to have rights as a “person?” How would such rights be implemented, given that rivers and other elements of nature would not be able to themselves claim and defend such rights? What implications do these two decisions have for not just the rivers and those living in/on/along them, but for the relationship between humans and the rest of nature? This study addresses these questions in order to find solutions.

Introduction

Vol. 52, Issue No. 31, 05 Aug, 2017
Nandan Nawn, Sudha Vasan, Ashish Kothari

A Flawed Climate Road Map

Vol. 50, Issue No. 42, 17 Oct, 2015
Ashish Kothari, Nagraj Adve

India submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution on 1 October. The policy document on climate change has received laurels from diverse quarters. INDC justifies the projected rise in India's emissions by emphasising the country's development imperatives. This obscures the fact that the well-off will stamp their ecological footprint and the country will justify the rise in its emissions by hiding behind the poor.

Greenpeace Ban: Violation of Rights

Vol. 50, Issue No. 17, 25 Apr, 2015
A Vaidyanathan, Achin Vanaik, Achyut Yagnik, Anand Patwardhan, and many others from different parts of India, Aruna Roy, Ashish Kothari, Bittu Sahgal, Claude Alvares, Gautam Navlakha, Harsh Mander, Justice H Suresh, Madhuri Krishanaswami, Medha Patkar, Meenal Tatpati, Nikhil Dey, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Rajeev Dhavan, Ravi Nair, Shabnam Hashmi, Shripad Dharmadhikary, Sudha Bharadhwaj, Tapan Bose

(The following are extracts from an open letter sent to the Minister of Home Affairs, Rajnath Singh, protesting against the decision to freeze Greenpeace India’s accounts.)

A Hundred Days Closer to Ecological and Social Suicide

Vol. 49, Issue No. 39, 27 Sep, 2014
Ashish Kothari

The first 100 days of the Narendra Modi government which have been celebrated by the mainstream media saw what can only be called a widespread and large-scale assault on rules, laws and institutions meant to protect the environment, and more is on the cards. Side by side, the central as also state governments of various hues have moved against non-governmental organisations raising social and environmental issues. But resistance to corporate-driven growth continues and alternatives continue to be explored.

Dialogue Needed on Sardar Sarovar

Vol. 49, Issue No. 37, 13 Sep, 2014
A C Bhagabati, A Vaidyanathan, Amita Baviskar, Ashish Kothari, Bharat Patankar, Ghanshyam Shah, K J Joy, Kanchan Chopra, Ramaswamy R Iyer, S Janakarajan, Sanjay Kak, Sharachchandra Lele, Sudarshan Iyengar, Suhas Paranjape, Vimalbhai and others

The following is an Open Letter to Uma Bharti, Minister for Water Resources, Government of India:

Attack on Paper

Vol. 48, Issue No. 45-46, 16 Nov, 2013
Ashish Kothari, B R P Bhaskar, K M Roy, K Satchidanandan, V T Rajsekhar and 30 others, Vishnu Bhagawat

Thejas, a daily newspaper in Malayalam, published from Calicut and four other centres in Kerala, has been served with a notice by the additional district magistrates of Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram, to show cause why its declaration for publication shall not be cancelled for pub

Development and Ecological Sustainability in India

Vol. 48, Issue No. 30, 27 Jul, 2013
Ashish Kothari

This paper is aimed at policy-level discussions, as well as an aid to civil society to push for necessary changes to take Indian economy, society and polity towards the goal of human well-being with ecological sustainability as one fulcrum. A possible post-2015 framework of implementation of the Millennium Development Goals that combines sustainability and human well-being that could be applied globally, including its key principles, is attempted at here.

Attacking INSAF

Vol. 48, Issue No. 24, 15 Jun, 2013
340 others, Ashish Kothari, Bezwada Wilson, Dayamani Barla, Farah Naqvi, Harsh Mander, John Dayal, L Ramdas, S P Udaykumar, Vasanth Kannabiran

We the undersigned are shocked and dismayed at the Government of India’s action against Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF), a national coalition of 700 people’s movements, social action groups and progressive intellectuals with an act

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