About 200 kilometres south of Delhi lies the mostly forgotten town of Bayana in Rajasthan. Once celebrated for producing perhaps the world’s first and finest clear crystalline sugar, Bayana rivalled Agra and Delhi in wealth and grandeur. What made Bayana’s sugar special was something to do with its wells and their water. Then, suddenly, Bayana’s…
“If a disaster like a flood, earthquake, or extreme rain event occurs, I cannot even run or protect myself,” says 48-year-old Ram*, a person with a disability from Indrawati Rural Municipality, Sindhupalchok, to the north-east of Kathmandu in central Nepal. As climate change intensifies, it has upended local lives and livelihoods, disproportionately affecting people with…
From ornate European-style interiors and spiral staircases to vintage lighting and a trove of luxury items, the Enforcement Directorate’s raid on the Lucknow home of a dismissed police constable arrested in the codeine-laced cough syrup case has left officials stunned. The Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh Police arrested constable Alok Pratap Singh,…