Rishika Pardikar

2 weeks ago | news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Rishika Pardikar

NB: We recorded this conversation before the crash of London-bound Air India Flight 171, in which at least 274 people have died. Our thoughts are with the families grieving their loss. I just want to make clear why it did not feature in our conversation. I spoke with a couple of people who suggested delaying the episode’s release further. But the best time to include the perspectives of people outside the Western climate narrative ‘bubble’ would be forever ago; the second best time is now.

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Rishika Pardikar |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Jagadish Shukla

Predicting tropical weather is an exacting but necessary science. The eminent meteorologist Dr Jagadish Shukla, whose book A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory is scheduled to be released on May 24, has devoted a lifetime to improving accuracy in seasonal weather predictions, and monsoonal predictions for India in particular.

2 months ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Rishika Pardikar |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy

Early in 2023, D. Ayyappan, Secretary of the Andaman and Nicobar State Organising Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), wrote to Ajay Kumar Bhalla, the then-Home Secretary of the Union government, about the “problems being faced by the people of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands”.

2 months ago | newslaundry.com | Rishika Pardikar

We are in Barnabas Manju’s office, a one-bedroom house in a government quarters in Campbell Bay. He is the chairman of the Tribal Council of Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar. A long-pending demand of the Tribal Council is for a formal office with work equipment. “There is nothing here. No computers to work. We just have a chair,” Barnabas said.

2 months ago | thenewsminute.com | Rishika Pardikar |Nandini Chandrashekar

We are in Barnabas Manju’s office, a one-bedroom house in a government quarters in Campbell Bay. He is the chairman of the Tribal Council of Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar. A long-pending demand of the Tribal Council is for a formal office with work equipment. “There is nothing here. No computers to work. We just have a chair,” Manju said. From a demand for a formal office to answers on a mega project that threatens to destroy their way of life, Manju is stonewalled and his visitors surveilled.