Category: Environment

Arunachal Pradesh entrepreneur Tenzin Metoh reinterprets the Monpa tribe’s traditional attire with weather-conscious textiles, fresh colours and symbolic motifs  Growing up in Bomdila, a hill town in Arunachal Pradesh, Tenzin Metoh remembers winter mornings meant waking up to taps jammed with ice, rooftops lined with icicles, and a yard knee-deep in snow. Naturally, Metoh and […]

In a particularly devastating flood in Assam this year, 49 children have died, accounting for 44.5 per cent of the total deaths reported  On June 1, a 13-year-old in Assam’s Nagaon district drowned while chasing ducks in a flooded river near his house. A month later, on July 1, a six-year-old slipped and fell into the slushy waters of […]

This article was originally published in Reuters in April 2025. Below is a longer version. Byrnihat, a small industrial town on the Assam-Meghalaya border, has been ranked the “world’s most polluted metropolitan area” in the World Air Quality Report 2024 released by Swiss group IQAir Sumaiya Ansari is barely three years old but she has […]

Floods might be as old as Assam, but fighting a pandemic in knee-deep water is a whole new challenge for even the most seasoned health worker. It is the wind that has helped Pratima Barman plan her day as an accredited social health activist (ASHA) in Assam’s Dibrugarh district for seven years now. In the […]

A group of men and women in Assam are fighting to save a flower — by growing it in their backyards, bonding over it on Whatsapp and a month ago, formally grouping into a society for its conservation In January 2003, two days before Bihu, Khyanjeet Gogoi, trekking in the forests bordering Dibru Saikhowa National […]

Nine days after Silchar saw its worst flood, water lies stagnant, power supply is still out at some places, officials are struggling with rescue, and people have questions over if things will ever change. Every resident of Silchar has a story of the “bejaan jol”, or the big flood, that hit the south Assam town […]