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Roli Mahajan

roli.mahajan@gmail.com

is a journalist based in Lucknow, India.

All articles of Roli Mahajan

Farming
Roli Mahajan

Indians are beginning to pay more attention to healthy diets

Why millets should prove useful in the fight against malnutrition in South Asia

Debt problems
Roli Mahajan

World Bank sounds alarm as debt problems worsen

According to multilateral institution, financial stress has increased at all levels due to coronavirus pandemic

Global environment
Roli Mahajan

The climate crisis is escalating fast

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns 1.5 degree-Celsius limit will probably be breached, at least temporarily

Sudan
Roli Mahajan

Sudan’s uncertain journey towards democracy

Though civilian prime minister is back in office after coup attempt, the situation in Khartoum remains tense

Mass suffering
Roli Mahajan

India’s disastrous second Covid-19 wave

Coronavirus is ravaging India’s cities and rural areas

Migration
Roli Mahajan

India’s diaspora is influential, though few members vote

Non-resident Indians (NRIs) have a bearing on the nation’s politics, society and culture

Struggling family
Roli Mahajan

Some cannot afford health worries

India’s poor cannot let worries about Covid-19 reduce their efforts to make money

Tuberculosis
Roli Mahajan

Never disrupt treatment

To make the world TB free, funding must increase dramatically

Plastics ban
Roli Mahajan

Finding alternatives

Rwanda is taking its ban on single-use plastic bags one big step further, to include most other types of single-use plastic products

Global environment
Roli Mahajan

Less food, more dengue infections

A recent report in The Lancet presents a bleak picture of how the climate crisis will affect human health

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains
A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition
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Sex for fish: the exploitation of female fish traders in Malawi
Cold war inside the G20 Common Framework

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

A cookbook reveals the connection of diet and tradition
Why you might find our newsletter useful
A story is always part of the currents of its time
Sex for fish: the exploitation of female fish traders in Malawi
Breaking gender stereotypes: female bus driver in Rwanda

Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains
How opium became a pillar of the British Empire
The forgotten Arab slave trade
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has been defanged

Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Lessons to be learnt from Nepal’s recent excessive rains
How opium became a pillar of the British Empire
The forgotten Arab slave trade
Why you might find our newsletter useful
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has been defanged