Anusreeta Dutta

As Maharashtra positions itself at the centre of India’s AI revolution, water security is emerging as an uncomfortable constraint. AI generated image The digital economy is often referred to as weightless. Streaming video from a smartphone. An artificial intelligence chatbot answers a question. A financial transaction takes only seconds to complete. A cloud server that contains millions of files. The average user views the internet as almost immaterial, in some virtual realm, without the...

As wetlands disappear beneath concrete, Mumbai’s resilience to floods and climate shocks is being severely undermined. Every monsoon season, Mumbai falls into a similar pattern. The rain comes down hard, flooding streets, stopping trains, leaving neighbourhoods wet for days and officials playing catch-up. Heavy rains and climate change are often blamed for these disruptions, but an equally important, but far less talked about, factor is the decline of the city’s wetlands. Threatened...

India’s battle against pollution cannot be won without confronting the social inequities hidden within the smog. Each winter, India’s cities disappear behind a familiar grey curtain. Schools are closed; flights are delayed while hospitals are full of respiratory patients Air pollution has become so common in India that it is like a season in itself. But beneath this ecological catastrophe lies another, less talked-about crisis. India’s pollution is very uneven. Not everyone breathes the same...