Why: Triund is a beautiful mountain-top area in Himachal Pradesh, accessible by a 6 kilometre up-hill trek from McLeod Ganj. The night-sky is inexplicably vivid and the stars and moon will never be the same for you again. How to get there: Bus from Kashmere Gate ISBT, New Delhi. Costs Rs 600 – 1700 Flight…
Tag: environment
Offshore Wind Farms in Tamil Nadu
The Video was as part of an in-house package making exercise for the TV course at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Below is the script of the voice-over provided in the video: Tamil Nadu grabbed the chance to set up India’s first offshore wind farm. It is to come up in the sea near…
The Climate Change Champion Trio: #KeepItInTheGround, Alan Rusbridger and The Guardian.
CHENNAI: Stating that the media worldwide had largely ignored climate change, Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of The Guardian, spoke about the role of the public in combating climate change during a public lecture titled “Climate change: Has journalism failed?”, organised by The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy at The Music Academy, Chennai on…
Is Music Activism a Farce? : #KodaikanalWont and Sofia Ashraf
In the 23 days the “Kodaikanal Won’t” music video has been on YouTube, it has gotten (as of 21 Aug): 3,051,728 million views 86,692 signatures (just short of its 100,000 mark) asking Unilever to own up, on jhatkaa.org, the organization that launched the video. #kodaikanalwont and #unileverpollutes trending on Twitter. Written and performed by rapper Sofia…
Satshya (n.) Being Witness 