Aditya Bastola

240 million people live in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, many of them energy poor, with the most impact on women, we need to change our forms of development to deal with this, argues Aditya Bastola. https://www.thethirdpole.net/en/2020/03/08/gender-and-energy-poverty-in-the-hindu-kush-himalayas/

Questioning Women Empowerment  - Lessons from Jalswarajya Project This paper is an outcome of the documentation process to support my scholarly study titled ‘Review of Jalswarajya Project through gender and development perspective”. A field visit was carried out at Jaulke (D) village located at Dindori Taluka of Nashik District in the month of March 2007. The village is said to have implemented Jalswarajya Project in the year 2002. Technically Jaulke is a Batch I Phase I village of the project. The project was implemented for a period of 18 months and now in principle said to be in operational and maintenance phase. The water supply scheme build at the village was outsourced to the local contractor. Villagers were to contribute 10 per cent of the capital cost for the infrastructure. The poor and the marginalised were said to contribute in kind (five per cent), in the form of labour and the elites contributed cash (five per cent). During the investigation process, at the...

Women and Quota System in Political Participation The right women | Oped | :: The Kathmandu Post ::

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How inclusive are we? Are we pro-development? Are we futuristic?   The letter from Gail Omvedt to Arundhati Roy, questioning issues of identity, gender, inclusion, development, governance, environment, change, perspectives and many more still reverberate. http://www.narmada.org/debates/gail/gail.open.letter.html 

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Climate Change and Its Impacts: Observations by the Villagers in Mewat  by Satoko Okamoto & Aditya Bastola Posted on IRRAD's blog

The “Doha Climate Gateway": will the camel go through the eye of the needle? — OneWorld South Asia The questions raised by Fuhr and Schaletek are certainly worth a thought.

National Water Resources Council approves water policy — OneWorld South Asia

Gender Mainstreaming in Climate Change Response: A Perspective for Inclusive Response  By- Aditya Bastola Abstract This paper is an attempt to draw the linkages between gender and climate change from adaptive perspectives to address the phenomenon. It brings in the impacts and a strategic action to challenge and implement measures based on studies carried out in the semi-arid regions of India, where distress and devastating conditions of livelihood options are the only alternatives for women in the rural communities.   Today it is a known fact, climate change is no more a technical response, it has moved beyond mitigation to adaptation measures. A triple gains approach within climate response, embraces adaptation as a process of mitigation. It is also found that countries, communities and individual with less adaptive capacities are the most likely to be affected with the impacts of climate change (IDS, 2008). Since Climate Change has a human dimension (Dankelma...

Review of GURU Feature Film By – Aditya Bastola This is a review of GURU feature film director by Mani Ratnam. The review highlights in three perspectives; the changing role of nation state, the gender relationships – pre and post marriage with the focus on the main characters of the film, and significantly the role of media in capitalist era. The primary focus of the review is to highlight key issues related to the said perspectives on the footing of Gender, Development and Globalisation. The feature film takes off on the aspirant character of Guru (Abhishek Bhachan), who is ready to perform any role to fulfil his dreams. He is characterised as an intelligent lad, with full hopes of achieving success and optimistic in nature. Given the perspectives which this report signifies is the changing role of the n...