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Digital India 2.0: Rethinking Healthcare

October 27, 2020February 17, 2021 Tanya Mittal 0 Comments AADHAR, advantage, animal-care, ASHA, citizens, Citizenship, coronavirus, COVID-19, democracy, dependent, digital health, Digital India, digitalization, disadvantage, divine, electronic, environment, equipment, Government, healthy, humanity, initiative, laboratory, medicines, New normal, NHIN, Online, PAN, pandemic, Passport, people, perspective, pharmacy, planet, policies, population, Power, Precautions, project, Ration card, responsibility, safeguard, self-care, solution, technology, uncertain, unique, vaccine, virtual, warriors, work from home

The Covid-19 pandemic has imposed a whole lot of rules and protocols on people to maintain safety and avoid the spread of the virus. Makes one think – in spite of all advancements and progress we have made so far, were we truly prepared for something like this?

Society

Understanding and Living with Eco-Anxiety

October 10, 2020October 10, 2020 Debopriya Bhattacharya 0 Comments Amphan, anxiety, balance, Celsius, century, Change, chronic, climate, contour, crisis, cyclone, damage, Disaster, Disaster Management, doom, eco-anxiety, Eco-psychology, environment, environmental issues, epidemic, Fahrenheit, Fani, fear, immunity, intellectual, Landfall, medical diagnosis, medicine, Mental health, mental illness, mental well-being, movement, Obama, pandemic, physician, precaution, professional help, Psychiatry, self-resiliency, social, temperature, therapy, threat multiplier, UN

Our planet is destabilizing and it is not difficult to notice with the extreme weather events, temperature drops, climate changes, and ongoing disasters across the world. People today are being diagnosed with Eco-anxiety – a newly recognized psychological disorder affecting those who are bothered by these environmental cataclysms. If you too are worrying about this impending doom, then rest assured, you are not alone.

Culture Society

Socially Conscious Veganism

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 Srijal Srivastava 0 Comments adulteration, agriculture, alternatives, artificial insemination, autism, battle, brahmin, calcium, carnivorous, Caste, cruelty, Culture, Dairy, debate, diabetics, differentiation, Discrimination, disease, economy, egg-based, environment, environment friendly, gene, Health, health benefits, horticulture, indigenous, inorganic, insemination, lactose lactose intolerant, Lifestyle, livestock, meat-eaters, morals, mutation, non- vegetarian, non-vegan, nutrition, nutritionist, omnivorous, oppressive, organic, pathology, personal choice, Plant-based, products, public health, Society, Vegan, veganism, vegetarian

A lot of people today are following or trying to follow the Vegan lifestyle due to its multiple benefits. It is environment friendly, animal cruelty free, and has shown to have positive health advantages. However, as a separate movement, it continues to face its own battles and challenges to find acceptance.

Society

That time is now

August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 Shreya K Sugathan 1 Comment A Tryst with Destiny, anti-globalization, asthma, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Birla Group, border area, cardio-pulmonary diseases, Category B2, chromium, closure, conserve, construction projects, ease of doing business, EIA, EIA Draft 2020, environment, Environment Protection Act, environmental activist, factory, Gwalior Rayons, Kerela, lead, LOAC, Mavoor, mercury, Nehru, Nobel Peace Prize, North East, pollution, post-facto clearance, protect, red data books, Society, strategic, tuberculosis, Vandana Shiva, Wangari Maathai

The contentious Draft EIA 2020 is explored from the lens of Kenyan political activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Wangari Mathaai. The degradation of our inherited planet can no longer be ignored and it is time to heed to the warning bells of nature.

Society

Environmental Concerns and Conflicting Realities: A socio-historical study

July 28, 2020July 28, 2020 Somnath Pati 2 Comments Aarey Forests, Activism, Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research, breeze, concerns, conflicting realities, Dehing Patkai, diet, Doikallu, Dongria Kondh tribe, dusk, Eastern Ghats, echo chambers, ecofascism, ecosystem, elephant reserve, environment, environmental, forests, green lungs, greenery, harmony, Jharkhan, journey, largest Sal Forest of Asia, National Crime Records Bureau, Naxalite attack, Niyamgiri hill ranges, non-vegetarian, Odisha, PETA, policies, rail route, rainforest, region, Rourkela, Saraikela, Saranda, social resistance, species, sunlight, survival, tunnels, veganism, vegetarian, village, Warli Adivasis, Wildlife Institute of India

“There is something deceptively reassuring in our readiness to assume guilt for the threats to our environment: we like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives.” – Slavoj Zizek
Everyone today talks about the conflicting realities around the environmental concerns, but how
many can take an action for it? Well, some people do and we can trace them back to our history.
Click on the link and have a look at the socio-historical aspect of the environmental realities.

Culture

Threads of Gold: The Legacy of Kashmiri Saffron

October 29, 2019October 29, 2019 Editor 1 Comment Change, Culture, environment, Export, Farmers, Government, Import, Indian Saffron, Kashmir, Kashmir Valley, Kashmiri Saffron, Mountains, National Saffron Mission, policy, pollution, Protection, Saffron, Saffron Festival, Spice, Tourism, Zero-waste

One of the most important and oldest commodities of Kashmir, Saffron is an integral part of Kashmiri culture. Over the last few years, the declining yield and the encroachment of farms have
brought the lives of the Saffron cultivators to a standstill. How can production be improved? What is the
Government’s role in protecting the legacy of Kasmiri Saffron? Let’s find out.

Interview Polity

Working Together Towards a Greener Tomorrow: An Interview with Henriette Faergemann

October 24, 2019June 19, 2020 Editor 0 Comments air pollution, clean energy, climate, climate change, environment, environment protection, European Union, international partnerships, policy, pollution, solution, sustainable development, technology, urbanization, water pollution

TweetShareSharePin0 SharesHenriette Faergemann is currently the Environment, Climate and Energy Counsellor in the European Union Delegation to India. She is