#aravallis

Planting Great Green Walls in an attempt to restore dry land has become a continental effort, led by governments and NGOs in both Africa and China. Now India has ambitious plans to do the same. But planting and sustaining millions of trees in water scare locations is a huge and complicated undertaking. To regenerate plant life at scale, what can India do differently?

The Aravalli Hills, one of the world’s oldest mountain systems, has been trending on social media for the past few days after Supreme Court in its ruling on November 20 adopted the environment ministry’s criterion. The Centre’s criterion stated that only hills rising at least 100 metres above local relief, or clusters of such hills within 500 metres of each other, will now be recognised as part…

of contemplations on the eld…

To know nothing of what happened before you, is to forever remain a child

– Cicero

receding water levels reveal a dirty, unkempt picture

Much like the natural world, I increasingly find that built heritage eventually tends to conform to the Darwinian adage of ‘survival of the fittest’… apathy can wither away the mightiest edifice of sandstone, blunting history into a mound of sorrow, while piety…

North India Kaleidoscope Bureau Chandigarh:

Kiran Choudhry, Leader of the Haryana Congress Legislature Party, has demanded CBI inquiry into the illegal mining at Dadam stone quarry in Bhiwani district which not only constituted a grave violation of the Supreme Court orders banning mining in the Aravallis, but also damaged the ecology beyond repair in the area.

In a statement issued here today,…

North India Kaleidoscope Bureau Chandigarh:

Kiran Choudhry, Leader of the Haryana Congress Legislature Party, has demanded CBI inquiry into the illegal mining at Dadam stone quarry in Bhiwani district which not only constituted a grave violation of the Supreme Court orders banning mining in the Aravallis, but also damaged the ecology beyond repair in the area.

In a statement issued here today,…

North India Kaleidoscope Bureau Chandigarh: Kiran Choudhry, Leader of the Haryana Congress Legislature Party, has demanded CBI inquiry into the illegal mining at Dadam stone quarry in Bhiwani district which not only constituted a grave violation of the Supreme Court orders banning mining in the Aravallis, but also damaged the ecology beyond repair in the area. In a statement issued here today,…