Nature's Grandchildren

Rabindranath believes that the inevitable ecological alienation involved in metropolitan life cripples our cognition profoundly, leaving humanity in a condition of an ultimately destructive spiritual destitution. Intimacy with the natural world from a formative age is the only way to restore humanity to spiritual and ecological health. This, to him, is the core of his practical religion as well as his pedagogy.

http://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/natures-grandchildren/

The air in Delhi

India’s new tax on car sales is a step in the right direction, but can the country address the wealth and power imbalance driving the health disaster? 

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/series/rethinking-prosperity

Air pollution in Delhi: Interview with Jim Boyce

According to recent reports in the press, an estimated 80 people a day die prematurely in Delhi on account of the rapidly deteriorating quality of the city's air. Here is a 15-minute interview with Environmental Economist Jim Boyce which sums up the situation. Jim spent four months in Delhi earlier this year:

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=14008

How to clean Delhi's air

My Phd thesis advisor from the US, Jim Boyce, has been here in Delhi since January. He has been researching air pollution and climate change for the past some years. He was shocked at the rapid worsening of air pollution in Delhi since he was here last, many years back. He proposed that we do some research and write a piece together whereby we make some concrete suggestions to the new government in Delhi - hoping like hell that they just might listen! So here is our attempt:

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/green-goals-for-the-delhi-aam-aadmi/article7159335.ece

CHURNING THE EARTH: THE MAKING OF GLOBAL INDIA

CHURNING THE EARTH was published (in Hardback) by Penguin in May, 2012. The paperback edition appeared in January 2014. The Hindi version (which is the translation of an abridged version) will be published by Rajkamal Prakashan later this year (in 2015).

The book's website has links to all the reviews in over two dozen journals, magazines and newspapers. It also has links to the book's Amazon and Facebook pages:

http://www.amazon.com/Churning-Earth-Making-Global-India/dp/0670086258/

https://www.facebook.com/churningtheearth