Ankit Mishra

Bhagat Singh Kinnar has spent more than a decade running between courtrooms, gram sabha halls, and government offices in Kinnaur district. He and the residents of Rarang village are fighting to stop the Kashang Integrated Hydroelectric Project from diverting the water they drink, irrigate with, and depend on for survival. “People have been shouting and screaming, running to the courts and holding protests,” he told researchers, “But this has had no impact.” The Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited, which is building the project,

In July 2025, the Supreme Court of India delivered an extraordinary indictment. “If things continue as they are,” declared a bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan,

In February 2024, residents of Chokhuta village in Nainital district walked into the forest to prune trees and clear fallen branches — a tradition through which the local van panchayat has maintained its 133-hectare forest for generations. Two months earlier, Uttarakhand's High Court had

Five Indian state elections. Five ecological emergencies. Zero climate mandates. What April 2026 tells us about the architecture of democratic silence.

Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand sustain the water, climate and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, while receiving almost nothing in return. With the 16th financial commission's report now tabled, another chance at reckoning has slipped by.

Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand sustain the water, climate and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, while receiving almost nothing in return. With the 16th financial commissions report now tabled, another chance at reckoning has slipped by.

India’s water crisis is not only a story of scarcity, but of caste, gender, and unequal power.

According to CGWB, nearly 85 per cent of annual precipitation in parts of Bundelkhand runs off as surface water, leaving only about 15 per cent to recharge aquifers below

Each change to the forest laws is framed as 'technical clarification' but it's never that, writes Ankit Mishra.

When the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) took effect on January 1, 2026, it was not an abstraction. For the thousands of workers empl