Kalyan Chatterjee, Author at Tatsat Chronicle Magazine

Risky Rides: Building Railway Networks In Ecologically Fragile Zones

October 9, 2022

India is no stranger to railways being carried up steep hilly slopes with three such 19th-century rail projects finding a place on the UNESCO World Heritage List. When steam locomotion was combined with rails in the first third of the 19th century

Waste In Space

Kalyan Chatterjee

August 2, 2022

Technology & Cyber Crime

Tall promises have been made in recent months by top leaders about reversing global warming within the next half-century. Any roadmap to reach this goal must have two crucial components: monitoring and action, in that order. Ever since the watershed 1992 Rio

Save The Lakes

Kalyan Chatterjee

July 2, 2022

Environment & Sustainability

At the dawn of the 20th century, it was widely believed that wetlands were merely a transitional stage in the succession from open waters to land. But by the 1940s, there was a growing acceptance that wetlands were a distinct ecosystem. Today,

Powering Up From The Grassroots

Kalyan Chatterjee

June 3, 2022

Economy & Development

Much before the urgency of transitioning to renewable energy dawned upon us to combat global warming and climate change, the idea of harnessing the sun to generate electricity had taken root in a small village called Tilonia, about 50 km northeast of

Going Underwater

Kalyan Chatterjee

May 4, 2022

Environment & Sustainability

India’s coastline is slowly, but surely, being swallowed up by the sea. The east coast is under greater threat, and at some points along the Bay of Bengal the coastline is receding by as much as 20 metres every year. Though about

When Green Turns To Red

Kalyan Chatterjee

March 3, 2022

Environment & Sustainability

The world is threatened by global warming and India, as expected, is attempting to play a leading role. In the short foreseeable term, it aims to meet half of its energy requirements from renewable sources and reduce carbon emissions by one billion

Friends of Forests

Kalyan Chatterjee

February 6, 2022

Environment & Sustainability

To achieve the target of restricting the rise in global warming to not more than 1.5o C by 2030, the emission of greenhouse gases all over the planet needs to come down by 7.5% annually for a decade, starting in 2020, according

Decoding India’s Population Riddle

Kalyan Chatterjee

January 20, 2022

Economy & Development

Much is being made of a recent finding about India’s fertility rate dropping to replacement level, giving rise to the impression that the country has finally succeeded in defusing the “population explosion bomb”. But has India finally reversed population growth? No black

Globalisation and India’s Urban Dilemma

Kalyan Chatterjee

November 12, 2021

Impact

India is no stranger to urban life. It is the land of some of the oldest continuing cities in the world besides being home to the site of the famed prehistoric urban settlements of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. But the true dimensions of

Unprepared For The Ticking Zoonotic Bomb

Kalyan Chatterjee

October 4, 2021

Education, Health, Sports & Entertainment

After weathering the Covid-19 pandemic for more than a year and a half, the global population is learning to live with it. Public health experts inform us that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is henceforth going to remain endemic to humans. Australia and New

Kalyan Chatterjee

Risky Rides: Building Railway Networks In Ecologically Fragile Zones

Waste In Space

Save The Lakes

Going Underwater

When Green Turns To Red

Friends of Forests

Decoding India’s Population Riddle

Globalisation and India’s Urban Dilemma

Unprepared For The Ticking Zoonotic Bomb

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