How land was acquired for the Navi Mumbai International Airport
A country decides what to give its people and what to take from them; what to make and sell, what to buy and distribute. In making these decisions, it arrives at a definition of development. The path has weight, for it forges the character of its citizens, leaving them with hope, or fear, or an upheaval felt for generations. The Noble Mansion will chronicle this development through the lived experiences of businessmen and bureaucrats, and villagers and city dwellers across India as it renews itself.
All the drinking water in the world will fit in a cube that can sit over the city of Bangalore. And in this industrial age, everyone wants a share of aquifers, rivers, lakes, and wetlands. Voices get shriller and stakes rise ever higher should a river cross international boundaries. Add to all this, the unpredictability of weather patterns in the age of climate change.
On the freshwater trail, I will follow the changing fortunes of people and species in the anthropocene era
For rural India, sharing space with wildlife is second nature. But as development gets fast-tracked, the delicate, value-based balance of man and nature is tilting; coexistence is giving way to conflict. This year-long project explores the complex inter-relationships between Man and Nature.
A good attempt at making the lay viewer understand the devil in the detail. However, the piece is a bit dis-organised as it appears to me. A few suggestions below not only for this piece but for all the articles on Peepli in general
1. If you could reduce font size and put the important details in one page, it would become easy to assimilate. Scrolling down a lot tends to take away from info displayed earlier.
2. The photographs are good (Arati Rao’s are exceptional) but at times way too large in their connect to what the written script says at times. Probably there could be an option to view it large if the viewer desires. If it is a photo essay like the article ” A Trip down the Sela River” in the Sundarbans, incorporating elements of the map essentially, then it is fine, wonderful.
3. I strongly feel a page view with information that a viewer can assimilate on that page itself to be a small story of the larger story would be better than a continuos scroll. The former would also allow the viewer an option to see multiple pages in a smaller font maybe to connect for example two of the smaller stories. The scroll view could be an option.
4. Specifically for this article, a map showing where location of Navi Mumbai would have been helpful; it would have connected to the environmental concerns brought forth in Jairam Ramesh’s letter.
5. A commendable effort all said. Arati Rao’s freshwater diaries are superb reads. I hope you take my comments in the correct perspective. I have also pasted these comments on the Peepli page. The content above para 1 of these comments are irrelevant to the Peepli page.
Thank you for writing with feedback. You’re right about the map. It would have been useful not just in the context of Jairam Ramesh’s letter, but also to give you, the reader, a sense of place. I will add it to my stories from here on.
Please do keep reading us.
Thanks a lot
Rahul,i couldnt find the date when the article was written.your articles are an eyeopener.super.
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