Exclusive

Publication

Byline

Location

Two years after the Mundakkai-Chooralmala catastrophe, Wayanad and Kerala are at a crossroads

India, Aug. 2 -- The silence at the Puthumala burial ground on July 30, 2026, was heavier than the monsoon clouds hanging over Kerala's Wayanad district. Families carrying flowers walked slowly betwee... Read More


Vizhinjam at a crossroads: As MSC eyes a stake, Kerala confronts questions of monopoly, pollution, and the price of maritime ambition

India, July 16 -- The proposed sale of a 49 per cent stake in Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Limited to Terminal Investment Limited (TiL), the port-operating arm of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC),... Read More


After Kalladi: Should Kerala rethink building a tunnel through its most fragile mountains?

India, July 10 -- In the aftermath of the tragic landslide that occurred on July 7, 2026, at Kalladi in Kerala's Wayanad district, a debate is raging over whether the state should go ahead with the am... Read More


Kalladi landslide in Wayanad a disaster waiting to happen: Experts

India, July 8 -- The July 7, 2026, landslide at Kalladi near Meppadi in Kerala's Wayanad district was a disaster waiting to happen, according to experts. Their remarks came even as rescue operations ... Read More


Conflict in the backyard: In Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris, forest corridors run through homes, estates and roads

India, June 26 -- In Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris, fatal tiger and elephant attacks have exposed how homes, tea estates, roads and wildlife corridors now overlap. The death of 51-year-old Nagiyammal near Mu... Read More


Kerala contains Nipah swiftly, but still lacks answers on how virus spills over

India, June 12 -- A 43-year-old man from Kerala's Kozhikode district is critically ill on ventilator support with a suspected Nipah infection, again raising questions over how the deadly virus repeate... Read More


Conflict in the backyard: In Karnataka, the forest has entered the field

India, June 2 -- Madhava Gowda no longer greets the day by its first light. He now senses its arrival through sound. His life changed irreversibly on the morning of October 16, 2025, when he entered h... Read More


Conflict in the backyard: Is 'Fortress Conservation' at the root of Kerala's human-wildlife clashes?

India, June 2 -- For generations, people in Wayanad, Kerala, have lived alongside wild animals. They learned to read their movements and adapted to the rhythms of the forest, adjusting to changing sea... Read More


India's first elderly department in Kerala will address a crisis rest of country has not recognised yet

India, May 31 -- For decades, Kerala's migration economy transformed the state socially and economically. Remittances built houses, funded education and lifted entire families into the middle class. B... Read More


Is V D Satheesan the 'green chief minister' that Kerala always needed?

India, May 18 -- For decades, environmental politics in Kerala lived at the fringes of power. Scientists warned about the destruction of the Western Ghats, wetlands vanished under concrete, rivers wer... Read More