Prakhar is a Correspondent with Tehelka and writes on environment and development issues. He is based in New Delhi.
Can mining only lead to destruction and have no beneficial effect on the community as claimed by the minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh? Speaking to a tribal audience, it might be a populist thing to say that mining can only lead to poverty and it is neither environmentally sustainable [...]
When a newspaper recently alleged that Chhattisgarh government bought every bit of news that is “fit to buy,” it only shed light on part of the malaise that has become institutionalised in the state. Let us not forget that the recent Jindal-Zee spat occurred because of adversarial stories being carried [...]
How difficult it is to get a gas connection? Very, even if you are living in Delhi. I realised this when I recently moved houses and was left with no fuel to cook for almost two months. Getting the previous connection had been easy. My friend had filled out all [...]
Jairam Ramesh knows how to grab the media attention the right way, at the right time. By getting Vidya Balan as a brand ambassador for the sanitation program, he has ensured that newsrooms, whose bandwidth is currently dominated by scams and inefficiency of the government, don’t lose sight of an [...]
Recently, I came across a quote by Walter Benjamin: “Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.” This has raised grave concerns about whether I should express my opinion even before the judgment is out, making the private public? Or can it wait and be [...]
