Author: Vasanthan Panchavarnam
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Earth Day 2025
Earth Day was first proposed a day to honour the Earth and the concept of peace and later as an environmental teach-in for the United States. By the 1990s Earth Day had mobilised around 200 million people in 141 countries and had lifted the status of environmental issues onto the world stage. This years theme…
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Unforeseen Contingency
At times ‘Presumption’ overshoots and ‘Diffidence’ falls short is a well known quote by Golda Meir. Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live – but in our presumption we assumed…
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Jal Jeevan Phase-II
The Wellington Lake named after the illustrious Duke of Waterloo and Assaye fame does not refer to the desultory piece of water near Black Bridge aka Waterloo Bridge aka Manekshaw Bride with which most are familiar, but rather to a waterbody, the history of which is intertwined with that of the Wellington Barracks. The Wellington…
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World Water Day 2025
To mark this year’s World Water Day, a preliminary assessment on cleaning a part of the stream which flows through Brooklands was made by Bharathiya Jain Sanghatana in association with ROBAC. Clean Coonoor will be offering technical support to the operations which will commence shortly. The theme of World Water Day 2025 according to the…
