Ideas & Insights
The blogs are part of Sankala Foundation’s mission to foster informed dialogue and cultivate analytical understandings on critical issues that affect the well being of our planet.
In an era of rapid change and development, we aim to offer insights that empower decision-makers, researchers, and communities to drive meaningful change.
Balancing Survival and Reproduction: Energy Trade-offs Shaping Tiger Ecology in India
What makes tiger populations grow in the wild is not reproduction alone, but the delicate balance between food,…
The Big C and The Grey Wave
India’s population is ageing, and its cancer burden is climbing. For people aged 60 and above, cancer can…
Crisis within Crisis: A Gendered Analysis of Floods
The floodwaters may be the same, but the consequences are not. Women often face a second wave of…
Humans Living with Tigers: How Gond Art Portrays Coexistence
For generations, tribal communities have seen the tiger not as a threat, but as a guardian of the…
Plastics in the Wild: A Heartfelt Cry from India’s Tiger Reserves
Plastic pollution is no longer just an urban problem. It is emerging as a growing threat to India's…
Urban Flooding Through a Human Lens
Every year, a few hours of heavy rainfall are enough to bring Indian cities to a standstill. Roads…
Challenges of Public Health Equity Women at the intersection of Ageing, Gender, and Geography
Introduction When we look at public health data through separate lenses: ageing, gender, or geography, are we compelled…
El Niño: Understanding the Enigma in Times of Climate Change
First time since 2021, monsoon arrived in the month of July instead of June in the National Capital…
The Silent Epidemic: Why Mental Health Must Become a Public Health Priority in India
Mental Health Beyond the Individual: A Global Development Challenge Behind every statistic on mental health is a child…
Sacred Groves: Living Models for Sustainable Conservation
Introduction There is so much to learn from the conservation model that the Sacred Groves offer, what can…
Building Community Resilience Key to Disaster Management
India is prone to natural disasters. Floods, cyclones, landslides, earthquakes, heatwaves and urban flooding affect millions of people…
How Technology has Shaped India’s Tiger Recovery Programme
India’s tiger (Panthera tigris) conservation journey is widely regarded as one of the most remarkable wildlife recovery stories…
Beyond Apps: The Transformative Power of Digital Health on the Ground
Digital health is often imagined as mobile applications, online consultations, or dashboards. But on the ground, it is…
Living With the Heat: Impact and Building Future Resilience
New Delhi, Gurgaon, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Nagpur, Yavatmal, Kota, Bikaner, Gwalior, and Raipur – 10 cities from six different…
Big Cats Conservation in India Strategy, Practice and Impact
In the 21st century, conservation is no longer just about protecting wildlife, it is about restoring balance between…
Rethinking River Health Monitoring in Cities: Assessing Urban Waste Impacts
Rivers in India hold immense social, economic, and cultural significance. They are sources of water for drinking, irrigation,…
Women, Water and Leadership: From Managing Scarcity to Shaping Systems
In the drought prone Bundelkhand region with its hard-rock geology, increasingly erratic rainfall owing to climate change and…
When a Textile Mill is a Classroom, Women Weave their Own Futures
March is a special month for me. We celebrate the International Day of Women. This year, the theme…
Restoration Without Illusions
The Aravalli range continues to attract attention amid persistent challenges, including legal disputes over land for mining leases,…
From Flooded Streets to Sponge City: Sankala’s Blueprint for a Water Resilient Gurugram
In just six decades, Gurugram has lost four-fifths of its water bodies, with only 123 of the 641…
The Convergence of Nature and Culture: A Co-existence Marvel of the Junagadh Landscape in Gujarat
Growing up, when I read Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, the idea of a human child raised by…
The Aravallis Through People’s Eyes
The Aravalli Range has shaped the cultural life of north-western India in ways that are subtle, layered, and…
Remote Sensing & GIS for Eco-restoration of the Aravallis
How satellites, spatial data, and smart analytics can be used to heal one of the world’s oldest mountain…
Tigers' conservation can support water security
India's tiger conservation strategy focuses on recovering the wild tiger population, which serves as umbrella species...
Growing Together: How India is Shaping Rwanda’s Agricultural Revolution
In Rwanda, almost 90% of the population depends on agriculture for their everyday livelihoods. Yet...
Brewing Safety: Rethinking Pesticides in India’s Tea Production
From roadside stalls in bustling cities to quiet verandahs in rural homes, tea is more than a beverage..
Rewilding the Akagera National Park, Rwanda
Established in 1934, Akagera National Park is the largest protected wetland in Central Africa and the last remaining…
The Emerging Realities Of Ageing, And How It Affects India
India is at the cusp of an unprecedented and irreversible demographic transition. The proportion of elderly citizens is…
Corbett’s Writings Help us Reconnect with the Natural World
Edward James Corbett’s writings are a treasure for India and the world. Born on 25 July 1875 in…
Financing Cities of Tomorrow: The Role of Municipal Bonds in Urban Growth and Climate Resilience
India’s cities are expanding rapidly. By 2050, nearly 50% of India’s population, about 814 million people, will be…
A Journey Through the Tea Gardens of Northeast India
Tea has always been more than just a drink to me. It’s a ritual, a comfort, a moment…
More Than a Forest: The Living Culture of the Aravalli
Living with the Forest I have been working on an ecorestoration project, in Sankala Foundation, for which our…
The Aravallis: A Fading Green Legacy Amidst Urbanisation
I still remember the day I visited the Aravallis few years back with my family along the leopard…
From Clicks to Care: Digital Tools to Transform Maternal and Child Health
Every year on 7th April, the world comes together to observe World Health Day—a tradition started by the…
Water Woes of Delhi and Shrinking Glaciers
Though they seem apart, Delhi and the Himalayas have a close relationship. Delhi gets nearly 90% of its…