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‘Ecology is a city’s natural buffer. We don’t see its tipping point, its warning.’

As large swathes of natural ecology in our cities are sacrificed for development and construction, not only do we lose the trees and rivers and lakes, but also the imagination of cities defined by its natural elements. Land use does…
By Team QoC4 days ago
  • Land Use
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  • Sustainability

The Himalayan disasters point to reckless construction, not merely climate change

As Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Punjab struggle to recover from the widespread devastation this monsoon, it is futile to only…
By Nidhi Jamwal4 days ago
  • Land Use
  • Natural Environment
  • Sustainability

Dehradun: Infrastructure development or the
ghost of greed?

The aggressive push for infrastructure projects – specifically the Char Dham Yatra road, Dehradun’s airport expansion, and an elevated corridor to Mussoorie…
By Ranjona Banerji4 days ago
  • Land Use
  • Natural Environment
  • Sustainability

Will nature send an invoice to booming Goa?

Eco-sensitive zones, private forests, paddy fields, orchards, natural greens, sacred groves, khazan lands, kulaghars, plateaus – all of Goa’s undulating land and…
By Tallulah D’Silva4 days ago
  • Rivers
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Focused on flood management, Mumbai lets down Mithi River ecologically

Twenty years after the July 2005 deluge in Mumbai, the Mithi, pivotal to drain the rain, is still choked, silted and disconnected…
By Smruti Koppikar and Jashvitha DhageyJuly 25, 2025
  • Rivers
  • Natural Environment
  • Urban Planning

Why Kolkata should be a celebration of the Hooghly but isn’t

The iconic river, immortalised in cinema, songs and art, hardly has a happy relationship with the city. Visible for barely 1.5 kilometres,…
By Anasuya BasuJuly 25, 2025
  • Rivers
  • Natural Environment
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Rivers are our home (but) what will the waters remember – plastic?

“The Mithi,” wrote the legendary poet Eunice D’souza, “will carry you on a raft of garbage to a dying sea.” As rivers…
By Yashasvi VachhaniJuly 25, 2025
  • Rivers
  • Natural Environment
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‘Save the Yamuna floodplains from government-sponsored encroachment’

The Yamuna is being choked, artificial grass is being watered with ground water, ornamental plants and bamboo trees planted, the riverbank has red coarse sand, and of course, construction continues on the floodplains. “If you let a river flow, it…
By Team QoCJuly 25, 2025
  • Rivers
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‘Give the river back its space. Give it a new spatial
role in a city’

São Paulo and Mumbai are similar in that the cities have seen massive urbanisation at the cost of rivers. The Tietê and…
By Team QoCJuly 25, 2025
  • Rivers
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Why cities must reconnect with their rivers, renew river-people relationship

Rivers are slowly being erased from people’s lives and imagination in cities. Seen as water sources, as dumping yards for waste, and…
By QoC EditorialJuly 11, 2025

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