Landslides - Question of Cities

Built Environment
Rivers & Waterbodies
Sustainability

Shimla and Kullu mountains send feedback; we ignore
and build

The hill town with the old water system built in tune with gravity now has water anxiety and private rooftop reservoirs, covered in iron grills to protect them from monkeys. In Kullu, the market dances to the tune of the…

Built Environment
Ecology
Sustainability

Wayanad’s mountains have spoken, again. Who’s listening?

The recent Kalladi landslide showed that, like fear after the Choolarmala landslides two years ago, key questions too did not fade. Just how much cutting, tunnelling and construction can these mountains absorb, how much engineering intrusion is too much? The…

Natural Environment
Green Zones
Sustainability

What Shimla’s construction in defiance of its mountain ecology means

Over half of Shimla, the hill station from the British era that is still popular among tourists, has been officially classified as moderately prone and 33 percent of it highly prone to landslides. The brunt of landslides is borne by…

Shimla and Kullu mountains send feedback; we ignore and build

Wayanad’s mountains have spoken, again. Who’s listening?

What Shimla’s construction in defiance of its mountain ecology means

Shimla and Kullu mountains send feedback; we ignore
and build