northeast monsoon

All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee members and farmers at the rally at Ramlila Maidan on November 29, 2018. Credit: PTI/Ravi Choudhary

Kisan Movement: The Necessity of Making Climate Change a Political Issue

N. Sai Balaji 01/12/2018

The moment for revisiting the grammar of the farmer's...

agricultural distress, Azad Maidan, Bundelkhand, climate change, drought, farmer suicide, farmer’s march, global warming, Indian monsoon, Indian Ocean, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Kharif crop, livestock, melting glaciers, northeast monsoon, ocean warming, rabi crop, rising sea level, southwest monsoon, Sunderbans, wheat cultivation,

As Farmers March to Delhi, Climate Change Fuels Their Larger Crisis

Nagraj Adve 28/11/2018

Perhaps we can visualise a farmers’ march 20 years...

A worker places sandbags on a beach in Kochi after Cyclone Ockhi struck it on December 2, 2017. Credit: PTI

What’s Worse: Natural Disasters Like Ockhi or Manmade Ones Like Our Governments?

Nityanand Jayaraman 05/12/2017

From unwise land-use change to infrastructure erected to disrupt...

summer monsoon, El Nino Southern Oscillation, IMD, India Meteorological Department, El Nino souther oscillation, Indian Ocean dipole, monsoon forecast, northeast monsoon, southwest monsoon, Pacific Ocean, climate change, Ministry of Earth Sciences,

With New System in Hand, IMD Predicts Normal Monsoon for 2017

Akshit Sangomla 19/04/2017

Having been criticised in the past for failing to...