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Kaushik Das Gupta
Kaushik Das Gupta is a Senior Associate Editor at The Indian Express who specializes in environmental issues, climate justice, public policy, and the intersection of politics and culture. Professional Profile Role: Senior Associate Edito Expertise: He frequently writes editorial pieces and columns that analyze environmental crises (specifically Delhi's air pollution), climate change, education policy, and major sports narratives. Email: kaushik.dasgupta@expressindia.com Recent Notable Articles (2025) His recent columns provide critical insights into pressing civic and global issues: Environment & Climate Change: "Citizens are protesting Delhi's toxic air. The issue is much deeper than 'severe' AQI" (Nov 16, 2025) — A critique of administrative responses to the pollution crisis. "Once there was a Delhi winter, now we have a mask" (Nov 5, 2025) — A personal and analytical reflection on the loss of the traditional winter season to pollution. "Climate justice lets super rich in developing world off the hook" (Oct 30, 2025) — An interview/analysis of historian Sunil Amrith's work on human exploitation and the environment. "Can artificial rain quell Delhi's pollution?" (Sept 28, 2025) — An examination of the scientific limitations of cloud seeding. Politics & Society: "Between 'Communist' Mamdani and 'Despot' Trump, the common ground is the city" (Nov 22, 2025) — Commentary on the political climate in New York following the U.S. elections. "Reversing brain drain requires honest introspection of what caused it" (Oct 26, 2025) — On the need for academic freedom to attract global scholars. "NCERT textbook revisions — a point-by-point counter isn't enough" (July 20, 2025) — A call to contextualize the history of violence in medieval ages rather than just reacting to revisions. Sports & Culture: "I believed in cricket diplomacy between India and Pakistan. Not anymore" (Sept 18, 2025) — A piece on how "revanchism" has replaced healthy rivalry in modern cricket. "When Cheteshwar Pujara won, India won" (Aug 25, 2025) — A tribute to Pujara's Test cricket legacy and technical discipline. "Hitman signs off: For fans, Rohit Sharma's Test legacy will be about wanting more" (May 8, 2025). Literature: "Booker Prize 2025: Andrew Miller's Land in Winter" (Nov 9, 2025) — A review of the novel exploring resilience during extreme isolation. "Amitav Ghosh's Wild Fictions" (June 14, 2025) — Analysis of Ghosh’s essays on climate crises shaping human activity. Reporting Themes Kaushik's work often bridges the gap between scientific knowledge and policymaking. He frequently argues that addressing issues like floods, heatwaves, and pollution requires a "paradigm shift" in engineering and planning, rather than temporary fixes.
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Supreme Court censure on renaming games: Because the past lives in the presentSubscriber Only
March 01,2023 17:23:26 PM
Such projects obsess over “invaders” and “outsiders”. In doing so, they harken ironically to the colonial version of India's past that periodised the country's history into Hindu rule, Muslim rule and British rule
Thu, Mar 02, 2023
The video of Gir lions in a village highlights the problem with our approach to wildlife conservationSubscriber Only
February 17,2023 14:33:40 PM
Overcrowding, disease and the Gujarat government’s obsession with its Gir lions endanger the well-being of both the animals and the people
Fri, Feb 17, 2023
RSS’s Dattatreya Hosabale on beef: The blind spots of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ of RSS-BJPSubscriber Only
February 03,2023 17:04:20 PM
It is blinkered to the complex ways in which food practices are generated and stops short of meaningfully engaging with the culture of the people they wish to draw into their fold
Fri, Feb 03, 2023
Explained Books | Conservation of species: Ecologists reflectSubscriber Only
December 17,2022 08:00:53 AM
At The Feet Of Living Things: Twenty Five Years of Wildlife Research and Conservation in India covers a key period in modern India’s tryst with ecological sensitisation.
Sat, Dec 17, 2022
Japanese manufacturer files trademark case on ‘Ajinomoto’: How did the seasoning become popular?Subscriber Only
December 09,2022 20:01:11 PM
The seasoning, primarily used in Asian cooking, continues to have detractors. However, food safety agencies, such as the US FDA, have pronounced MSG safe. How did it travel the world? We explain its history.
Fri, Dec 09, 2022
A second Trump presidency could be bad news, not just for climate changeSubscriber Only
November 16,2022 18:56:12 PM
As Trump announces his candidature for US presidential elections in 2024, there are several reasons why America and the world must be wary
Wed, Nov 16, 2022
Delhi’s air quality crisis: Why we are all culpableSubscriber Only
November 02,2022 17:33:40 PM
Unlike in other parts of the world, there is no citizens' movement for controlling pollution. And regulation is most often seen as imposing bans, not hand-holding and persuading industry – most of them small factories – into adopting environment-friendly measures
Fri, Nov 04, 2022
Review: John Zubrzycki’s The Shortest History of India acts as an antidote to blinkered images of India’s past on social mediaSubscriber Only
October 08,2022 10:10:10 AM
The book that compresses 5,000 years of the country’s history in less than 300 pages makes nuanced observations on aspects such as how religion shaped Indian history
Sat, Oct 08, 2022
At Central Vista, a flawed decolonisation project by BJP-RSSSubscriber Only
September 16,2022 14:15:22 PM
Kaushik Das Gupta writes: Despite the Modi government’s claims to root out colonial laws BJP-run governments, including at the Centre, have weaponised the sedition law — once used against nationalists including Gandhi, Tilak and Nehru — to showcase its might against dissenters
Sat, Sep 17, 2022
After the attack on Salman Rushdie, remembering Sahir LudhianviSubscriber Only
August 13,2022 14:01:58 PM
The poet wrote: “Tu badle hue waqt ki pehchan banega, Insaan ki aulad hai insaan banega”. As Salman Rushdie fights for his life, we are nowhere close
Sat, Aug 13, 2022
Aanchal Malhotra’s new book is a salve on Partition’s woundsSubscriber Only
July 30,2022 14:05:58 PM
The Language of Remembering threads together personal histories of Partition to build a narrative of hope and reconciliation
Sat, Jul 30, 2022
Explained: The history and culture of eating ‘muri’, symbol of Mamata Banerjee’s protest against the Centre’s GST regimeSubscriber Only
July 21,2022 16:34:39 PM
It's hard to miss the 'muri' — 'murmura' in northern and western India — vendors in the streets of Kolkata, other cities and towns in the state, in markets, and in the local trains that connect the suburbs with West Bengal's capital.
Fri, Jul 22, 2022
What makes Phantom Plague a fine revelation of a known adversary, the tuberculosis bacteriaSubscriber Only
July 02,2022 13:32:37 PM
In the book, Vidya Krishnan joins the dots between the inaccessibility of drugs, human folly and prejudices that come in the way of clinical care
Sat, Jul 02, 2022
Explained: Concise companion to a bestselling treatiseSubscriber Only
July 01,2022 23:57:05 PM
Thomas Piketty’s latest work, A Brief History of Equality, is a slimmer and a far less dense companion volume to Capital — and to his 2019 work Capital and Ideology.
Thu, Jul 28, 2022
From frankie to shawarma, all food is desiSubscriber Only
May 10,2022 17:24:58 PM
Kaushik Das Gupta writes: Why Tamil Nadu health Minister is wrong to call shawarma foreign.
Thu, May 12, 2022
How an uprising at a Bombay dock quickly turned into India’s last war of independenceSubscriber Only
April 23,2022 19:16:50 PM
The book gives a wide berth to Indian sailors who led a mutiny against the British but were soon forgotten by national leaders
Sat, Apr 23, 2022
Pranay Lal’s new book Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses tells us why microbes matterSubscriber Only
February 19,2022 11:00:33 AM
A lucid exploration of the virosphere that points at the delicate balance between the ecology of viruses and the human microbiome
Sat, Feb 19, 2022
Can consonants wage a war against vowels?Subscriber Only
January 10,2022 10:30:53 AM
In an allegorical story set in Planet Typewriter, author Roy Phoenix makes a case for our times
Mon, Jan 10, 2022
Bangladesh @ 50: How food mediated the battle between the two BengalsSubscriber Only
December 12,2021 06:10:46 AM
Between ghoti filiation and baangaal roots, between koi maachh and rui maachh, who wins the culinary battle?
Tue, Jan 04, 2022
Structural inequality and the response to global emergenciesSubscriber Only
November 16,2021 03:00:04 AM
Kaushik Das Gupta writes: For long, it has been apparent that a few people corner a lion’s share of the world’s resources, and exercise unfair sway in the way global wealth is used
Wed, Nov 17, 2021
The second wave questions that need urgent answersSubscriber Only
April 19,2021 04:20:36 AM
Is the government postponing the use of the Rs 35,000-crore allocated for vaccine development in the current Budget? Has it been shy in using its good offices with the US to intercede on behalf of the country’s vaccine manufacturing companies?
Mon, Apr 19, 2021
‘There is nothing like a Hindu birth rate or a Muslim birth rate’Subscriber Only
March 28,2021 06:14:22 AM
Former chief election commissioner SY Quraishi, who's out with a new book 'The Population Myth', on the politicisation of population data, myths about the polygamous Muslim and the lack of an efficient communication strategy
Sun, Mar 28, 2021
Message from hills: Eco-fragility must be respected, environment-development binary must be transcendedSubscriber Only
February 16,2021 03:20:46 AM
The tragedy of ecological governance in most parts of the world is that it remains trapped in the environment-development binary.
Tue, Feb 16, 2021
What Tagore believed about the role of joy in an unequal worldSubscriber Only
January 03,2021 06:30:36 AM
The Dancing Poet: Rabindranath Tagore and the Choreographies of Participation by Rimli Bhattacharya shows the poet as a seeker of diversity and equality, even as he is aware of, and grapples with, the limits posed by his position in society
Sun, Jan 03, 2021
Key Covid challenge is to institute transparent mechanisms at points where science meets policySubscriber Only
December 01,2020 03:38:42 AM
Securing 1.3 billion people will require a massive public policy effort at bolstering the country’s public health infrastructure, roping in the private sector without imperilling equity and obviating black markets as well as checking the diversion of resources from regular immunisation programmes.
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