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Young climate activists in India are shaken – but proud they have rattled the powerful Distinct from older movements, their activism is decentralised, collaborative, fluid. But the downside is the lack of safety nets, visible in recent arrests. A young woman at a protest over Amazon wildfires in 2019. | Indranil Mukherjee/AFP On February 14, as the Delhi Police arrested 22-year-old Disha Ravi for her alleged involvement in preparing a Google document that Greta Thunberg tweeted in support of farmer protests in India, many young climate activists like her felt alarmed, bu...

How Goa crib-hopped in smaller numbers in 2020, but without losing its spirit and thrust on social dialogue Across the state, people came together to create life-size Nativity scenes in cribs that were often themed on social issues. In the pandemic, the number of crib-hoppers may have reduced, but the sentiment remained unchanged. Joanna Lobo January 10, 2021 14:06:21 IST A crib in Goa. All images procured by the author. The hill plays the perfect backdrop. Down its si...

A villager gazes at a devastated area.   | Photo Credit: The ‘Save Mollem’ campaign has drawn in everyone from celebrities to politicians, protesting the lack of assessment of the threats posed by three proposed infrastructure projects The dense evergreen and semi-evergreen forests of Mollem at the edge of the Western Ghats, 60 km from Goa’s capital Panaji, support thousands of indigenous people and abound with a huge diversity of wildlife: tigers, leopards, gaur, and over 200 species of birds. They also happen to be the site of three proposed infrastructure projects — a highway exp...