India at 79: India’s energy quest: From a small start to a sun-powered dawn
Solar energy, constituting about one fourth of the country’s power capacity, places India at the forefront of the global energy transition
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India at 79
ENVIRONMENT
India at 79
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India at 79: Policy paradoxes and political priorities mostly steered urban planning, environment ignored
- by Anjal Prakash
- September 8, 2025
Decade old Smart City mission has been technology and infrastructure driven, failed to check burgeoning urban pollution in most of the 'smart cities'
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India at 79: Urban poverty alleviation during post-independence suffered from myopia; it still is
- by Mahalaya Chatterjee
- September 5, 2025
Government claims that ‘multidimensional poverty index’ has improved in last but many question the method
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India at 79: Indian media needs a rebirth from its self-imposed follies, environment coverage included
- by Buroshiva Dasgupta
- September 1, 2025
Shoots of green journalism need nurturing within the market and politics driven reporting trends
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India at 79: Free India followed western model of agriculture, rapid growth became the buzz word and diversity erased
- by Anshuman Das
- August 28, 2025
More than ten thousand farmers commit suicide every year in India, an agrarian country
HEALTH
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India at 79: Mental health continues to be ignored in free India despite an abundance of laws over decades
- by Ratnaboli Ray
- August 27, 2025
Climate change impacts add to psychological toll
CLIMATE CHANGE
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India at 79: Northeast is a heaven turning into hell, thanks to unplanned development
- by Biswendu Bhattacharjee
- August 26, 2025
Climate change piggybacks on environmental challenges as construction becomes rampant
HEALTH
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India at 79: Covid 19 brought light, camera, action on respiratory health care but many suffering poor still languishing in the dark
- by Arup Halder, physician
- August 25, 2025
Menacing tuberculosis to choking lungs from air pollution is a long and developing story
ENVIRONMENT
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India at 79: India’s policymakers and industrialists have not learnt from Bhopal disaster, period
- by Joydeep Gupta
- August 23, 2025
Eight decades after independence, India is a leader in industrial disasters among developing countries and nobody is concerned
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India at 79: Enough acts to address environmental issues but not enough action on ground
- by Biswajit Mukherjee
- August 23, 2025
Judiciary plays a pivotal role but politicians stand spoilers; social awareness poor