At the Crossroads of Rights
Forest Struggles and Human Rights in Postcolonial India
Edited By Rahul Ranjan

Mourning on the Ghat: Bagmati, a short note – Rahul Ranjan

Travelling through the bank of rivers often evokes a poetic charm. The meandering river, its serpentine movements are folded in stories – changing chapters as it breathes through the landscape of city, towns and kasbahs. Each story uncovers a unique riverine spirit. In other words, rivers are fraught with reflections of shared experiences with humans and non-human worlds. It registers the memory of pain, horror, joy and the harvest. In the long dry summers, fields long to meet flood as much as it yearns for the retreat. Rivers are the core of becoming and unbecoming. Rivers are memory.

RIVERINE RIGHTS
The Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on The Rights of Rivers

Through the study of legal cases and their aftermath in three countries – Colombia, India and New Zealand – we explore in this project the implications of recent court rulings recognizing rivers as subjects or persons.  

LIVING WITH THE FLOOD BY RAHUL RANJAN
SHORT FICTION / GULMOHAR QUATERLY / ISSUE 04

Racing his paddles, the rickshaw puller began humming an old song. As he pulled fast the rickshaw and his song, Raghu, a 12-year-old boy sitting on the back seat, was gripped by the sight of the river flowing calm under the bridge. The colour of the river changed this morning – a huge sway of muddy edges on the banks was flirting with the algae that had come through the humid summer. It looked like spilt oil paint on the canvas. The