In a few years, a road 120 metres wide will come through NAINA. The poorest locals believe it will hit them hardest, and miss the lands of the rich and influential. This series will examine the road's path
A country decides what to give its people and what to take from them; what to make and sell, what to buy and distribute. In making these decisions, it arrives at a definition of development. The path has weight, for it forges the character of its citizens, leaving them with hope, or fear, or an upheaval felt for generations. The Noble Mansion will chronicle this development through the lived experiences of businessmen and bureaucrats, and villagers and city dwellers across India as it renews itself.
All the drinking water in the world will fit in a cube that can sit over the city of Bangalore. And in this industrial age, everyone wants a share of aquifers, rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Voices get shriller and stakes rise ever higher should a river cross international boundaries. Add to all this, the unpredictability of weather patterns in the age of climate change.
On the freshwater trail, I will follow the changing fortunes of people and species in the anthropocene era
For rural India, sharing space with wildlife is second nature. But as development gets fast-tracked, the delicate, value-based balance of man and nature is tilting; coexistence is giving way to conflict. This year-long project explores the complex inter-relationships between Man and Nature.
I had followed your stories on bridges in Caravan and on heavy transportation in Yahoo! And now this! While the fact that this is being reported is satisfying, the plight of those who are affected by the project is saddening. And then there is the futile debate of development for whom – after all many of those who will tweet and post on their timelines in support of the advasis rights will end up living in the houses and working in the offices and traveling from the airport built on top of that land.