by Charu Thakur | Oct 9, 2022
(October 9, 2022) A Lok Sabha session in August this year saw Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change claim that around 34.7 lakh tonnes per annum of plastic was generated in India during 2019-20, out of which...
by Darshana Ramdev | Oct 15, 2022
(October 15, 2022) Waswo X. Waswo arrives at our video call looking irritable. The electricity had been erratic through the day – in Udaipur, the absence of air-conditioning is a serious problem. He has just returned from San Francisco, where he gave a talk at...
by Amrita Priya | Aug 6, 2022
(August 6, 2022)“While I was in New York, I was designing homes for super rich people. I worked from two million to 20-million-dollar homes but I always felt that something was missing,” Manushi Ashok Jain tells Global Indian. This vacuum led her to shift focus after...
by Darshana Ramdev | Aug 13, 2022
(August 13, 2022) The practice of urban planning in India dates back thousands of years. The remains of the Indus Valley civilisation are testament to well-thought out, detailed city plans. Mohenjo-Daro city included roads with perpendicular intersections and...
by Darshana Ramdev | Jul 30, 2022
(July 30, 2022) “Wow, they’re throwing confetti for us.” Aruna Miller was seven years old when she first entered the United States with her family. Ensconced in her father’s arms, the young girl’s first emotion was one of exhilaration....
