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India’s river-linking project could have some financial benefits, Amarasinghe says, but his calculations suggest they will come at the cost of displacing people and submerging large tracts of land.
In the heart of India, amidst the dense forests and rolling hills of the central highlands, flows a river that has captivated the imagination of people for centuries. This river, originating ...
Few people know more about sea turtles’ lives and deaths in southern India than he does ... to a mega- dam project planned for their river, the Dibang River. To them, it is a world- ending ...
Can you explain the concept of a river as a living being? At the heart of the book is the idea that rivers ... the watery city of Chennai in southeast India. And the third was to the wild interior ...
More than a hundred years ago, a British engineer proposed linking two rivers in India to better irrigate the area and cheaply move goods. The link never happened, but the idea survived.