Have we broken the natural contract between humans and rivers? The nature writer debates our relationship with the world’s waterways that inspired his latest book, Is A River Alive?

Through his journeys in Ecuador, Quebec and India, Macfarlane explores what it means to recognise, in law and the imagination, that rivers are living entities. Sunday, Jun 22, 2025 New Delhi o C ...

The word "atlas," may conjure images of giant books chock full of maps and a dizzying array of facts and figures. However, the new book "The World Atlas of Rivers, Estuaries, and Deltas" tells the ...

Dr. V. Nityananda has claimed that in past years, the volume of water flowing into India from the Sutlej River has dropped by over 75 percent. The amount of water coming to India through the ...

The river is often cited as the only one in India that flows in a rift valley, flowing west between the Satpura and Vindhya ranges. It is also said to be the only major river in India that flows ...

India offers captivating river cruises, such as the Brahmaputra River Cruise, Ganga Vilas Cruise, Ganges Heritage River Cruise, Mandovi River Cruise, Mangalore River Cruise, and Sundarbans River ...

An image of Canada’s Mutehekau Shipu River from “Is a River Alive?” by author Robert Macfarlane. (Photo credit Robert Macfarlane / Courtesy of W.W. Norton) Q.