Kalyan Chatterjee, Author at Tatsat Chronicle Magazine

Latest Forest Law Amendment Will Lead To Destruction Of Carbon Sinks

September 29, 2023

Ever since British colonisers sought to make commercial use of Indian forests in the 19th century, there has been a constant tussle between those who view forests strictly as a materials resource and those who firmly believe that forests are organically tied

Lip Service: Indian Banks Are Woefully Underprepared To Deal With Climate Change Risks

Kalyan Chatterjee

August 31, 2023

Sustainability

While serious statements promising steps to mitigate climate change and curb the emission of greenhouse gasses (GHG) are regularly delivered at international conferences on climate change, real movement on this front can only come when government policy is backed by the financial

Food For Thought: Can Conservation Agriculture Mitigate Climate Change Impact?

Kalyan Chatterjee

August 18, 2023

Commentary

Food security no longer remains simply a matter of increasing productivity and growing more grains. High-yielding varieties, extensive use of fertilisers and more irrigation worked like magic for the past few decades to pull India out of its dependence on imports to

Access to medicines: Caught between expensive patented drugs and low-quality generics

Kalyan Chatterjee

August 4, 2023

Top Story

Patients in India, especially the poor with limited access to healthcare, are caught between the devil and the deep sea. They cannot afford the exorbitantly priced patented medicines offered by global ‘big pharma.’ For that matter, even most people in prosperous countries

India Faces A Looming Crisis Of Drinking Water

Kalyan Chatterjee

July 29, 2023

Commentary

India’s growing urban population is heading for a severe drinking water crisis by 2050, according to a UN report released in New York in March this year. This alarming projection was revealed in the United Nations World Water Development Report (UNWWDR) for

Cities Of Problems: The Question Of Urban Emissions

Kalyan Chatterjee

May 3, 2023

Commentary

In popular perception, growing more trees, burning less fossil fuels, and switching to renewable energy sources are the most widely understood ways of checking global warming and climate change. However, what is less obvious is the crucial role that cities will have

No Time To Gas: India’s Long Road To Achieving Net-Zero

Kalyan Chatterjee

April 12, 2023

Commentary

Nudged into action by the 2015 Paris Accord on Climate Change, many countries (though not all) have begun to work on preparing initial plans to achieve carbon neutrality to limit global warming. While India was late to get off the block, it

Safeguarding The Rivers Of Life: The Importance Of Hindukush-Himalaya

Kalyan Chatterjee

March 1, 2023

Case Study

Water, which covers two-thirds of Earth’s surface, is taken for granted all over the world, except perhaps in deserts where oases have always been important junctions on trade routes. In India it is customary to offer a glass of water to visitors

A Big Fishy Problem – Global Wildlife Populations Had Dropped By 69%

Kalyan Chatterjee

January 5, 2023

Commentary

Considerable attention was paid by the Indian media to the grim finding of the latest Living Planet report that global wildlife populations had dropped by 69% over the past half-century. However, what did not catch its eye was another equally worrying part

Taming Global Warming Through Rewilding

Kalyan Chatterjee

November 18, 2022

Features

Every trick that has occurred to environmentalists, forest departments, governments and even the judiciary has been tried to regreen the surface of the earth and check environmental deterioration — be it planting more trees or curbing forest fires or cordoning off forest

Kalyan Chatterjee

Latest Forest Law Amendment Will Lead To Destruction Of Carbon Sinks

Lip Service: Indian Banks Are Woefully Underprepared To Deal With Climate Change Risks

Food For Thought: Can Conservation Agriculture Mitigate Climate Change Impact?

Access to medicines: Caught between expensive patented drugs and low-quality generics

India Faces A Looming Crisis Of Drinking Water

Cities Of Problems: The Question Of Urban Emissions

No Time To Gas: India’s Long Road To Achieving Net-Zero

Safeguarding The Rivers Of Life: The Importance Of Hindukush-Himalaya

A Big Fishy Problem – Global Wildlife Populations Had Dropped By 69%

Taming Global Warming Through Rewilding

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