Ashish Kothari writes: There is a massive rise in allocation for infrastructure projects, with huge environmental implications, and little set aside for sustainable development
Generations of activists learnt from him about the connection between forests, livelihoods, gender inequalities, and the sheer injustice of ‘development’ that stole trees, soil and water away from villagers for the benefit of city-dwellers.
The pandemic revealed the precarious state of India’s informal sector. Localised production, trade and markets offer a better alternative to existing paradigm of development.
