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Delhi NCR
Rising With the River: Can Floating Homes Break Bihar’s Cycle of Flood Destruction?
In 1958, riverine communities of the Kosi River, called “the sorrow of Bihar”, celebrated the construction of the Kosi Barrage that would relieve them of frequent destructive flooding. Decades later, the dam and hundreds of kilometres of embankments have failed to tame the river’s ferocity. Instead, experts say, it has made the floods catastrophic by […]
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Bangalore
India’s E-Waste Has a First-Mile Problem
Every Indian home has a dusty drawer that is a graveyard for defunct electronic gadgets – a tangle of chargers and cables, outdated phones, a forgotten router, and maybe even a relic like a BlackBerry. Multiply that drawer by a billion; that’s us Indians upgrading our devices every few years, and you get one of […]
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