Book Reviews:
Review of the book The Trash Diggers in The Telegraph in October 2017
Review of The Trash Diggers in The Statesman April 2017
Review of Ecosystem Management Book: Merging Theory and Practice published in Economic and Political Weekly
Book review in EU-India Project E-Qual newsletter
Review of Ecosystem Management Book - Hindustan Times
Articles with a Special Mention
ADB not funding any project in East Kolkata Wetlands (Page 1)
ADB not funding any project in East Kolkata Wetlands (Page 6)
News Paper Articles:
Dispensation of a Failed Ecologist - The Statesman (22 October 2017)
Mission Clean Ganga: The Case for Farm and Fishery-led Intervention (Pages 52-55) – Farmer’s Forum (Vol 15, No 04, Aug-Sept 2015)
Kolkata can be a lead model – The Statesman (20 April 2014)
Interview of D Ghosh – The Statesman (23 March 2014)
‘Mismanaged wetlands’ - The Statesman (2 November 2013)
‘Only Ecological Restoration can Lead to a Sustainable Second Green Revolution’ - Farmers Forum (September-October 2012)
‘Endangered Farming’ – The Statesman (8 September 2012)
‘Vegetables, and Truly Green’ – Farmers Forum (July-August 2012)
'Ecosystem and Development' – The Statesman (18 February 2012)
'Can we clean this dirty agriculture?' – The Hindu Survey of Environment 2011
'Assam’s Ramsar Site in Crisis' – The Statesman (17 October 2011)
‘Little Help for India’s Wonder Crop: Jute - Farmers Forum (July-August 2011)
‘Not on National Atlas: Rethinking East Kolkata Wetlands Conservation’ – The Statesman (26 July 2011)
‘Food And Inflation: Time To Expose The Non-Linearities’ – Food_Inflation (5 July 2011)
‘Cultivating Uncertainty - I’ – Cultivating Uncertainty (7 Jun 2011)
‘It is the farmers’ turn to reduce pollution’ – Farmer’s Forum (Vol 10, No 9 March-April 2011)
‘Think ecosystems to save the Ganga’ – D Ghosh interview in Civil Society (Vol 8 No 3)
‘Breaking the cycle of exclusion’ – The Statesman (6 May 2010) 14.
‘How to keep a river clean’ – Civil Society (Vol 5 No 9, July 2008)
‘Grassroots need attention’ – 30 May 2001 (The Statesman)
‘Environmental Conservation: a look at the rural scenario’ – May 27, 1999 (The Financial Express)
‘Fourth World’: Planning for Wetland Wise Use – December 5, 1993 (The Sunday Statesman)
‘Queries for UNEP’ – August 7, 1993 (The Statesman)
‘Break the Chain’ – June 5, 1993 (The Statesman)
‘Biodiversity Conservation’ – February 27, 1993 (The Statesman)
‘The Not-so-Alluring Cities’ – December 26, 1992 (The Statesman)
‘Sustainable Impoverishment’ (Eco Watch) – May 30, 1992 (The Saturday Statesman)
‘Subsidy Dilemma’ – March 12, 1992 (The Statesman)
‘UN honours city scientist’ – report on Dr Dhrubajyoti Ghosh in The Telegraph, June 6, 1990
Website Writeups:
Recycling works - Kolkata wetlands oldest proof - 23 May 2016 - India Climate Dialogue
Calcutta Wetlands Project – BBC Worldservice (February 2003)
Calcutta Wetlands: Turning Bad Water into Good - Changemaker (October 1998)
Journal Articles:
Deconstructing the process of urbanisation in West Bengal – April 2011
‘Pollution from Non-Point Sources in Ganga Basin: A Community-based Potential for Managing the Unmarked Crisis’ – paper based on presentation at seminar on Community Development in the Ganga Basin in response to Climate Change, jointly organised at Kolkata by Monash University and the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata on 23 September 2010
Wastewater utilisation in East Calcutta Wetlands, UWEP occasional paper (Commissioned by WASTE, The Netherlands, July 1999)
Ecological history of Calcutta’s Wetland Conservation – Environmental Conservation (1990)
Resource-Conserving Traditions and Waste Disposal: the Garbage Farms and Sewage-Fed Fisheries of Calcutta (in Conservation & Recycling, Vol.7, No.2-4, pp.159-165, 1984)
Bengali Articles:
Article in Ei Samay on Houston and Mumbai Flood in September 2017
Article in Ei Samay on PF for waste pickers in February 2017
Rihne and Ganga Pollution (13 November 2015)
Review of The Great Derangement (Amitav Ghosh) – 11 Sept 2016 – Ei Samay
‘Keno mithye bhoi dekhano’ - 31 August 2016 - Anandabazar Patrika
Ramayan review - 5 June 2016 - Ei Samay
Heritage of the Wetlands - 2 February 2016 - Ei Samay
War and Ecology - 28 December 2015 - Ei Samay
Review of 2 books on water – Ei Samay – 2 August 2015
World Environment Day – Ei Samay – 7 June 2015
SDGs – Ei Samay – 13 November 2014
Book review – Ei Samay – 2 November 2014
Ganga article – Ei Samay – 22 July 2014
Dhapa article – Ei Samay – 22 April 2014
Dying wetlands – Ei Samay – 20 February 2014
Captain bheri – Ei Samay – 19 February 2014
Wetlands and groundwater – Ei Samay – 21 March 2013
East Kolkata Wetlands article – Ei Samay - 4 March 2013
Climate change and farmers – Ei Samay – 7 January 2013
Groundwater scenario in Bengal – Ei Samay – 12 December 2012
Writing on work in the Kumari Command area, in Anushtup Bengali magazine, Autumn 2010 edition
Hindi Articles:
Ek nirmal katha (about the East Kolkata wetlands) – Gandhi Marg – March 2013
Published Books:
Ecology and Traditional Wetland Practice: Lessons from Wastewater Utilisation in the East Calcutta Wetlands
Writings on Me:
Article in Readers Digest in May 2017
Article in Bhoomi College magazine February 2017
Article reproduced in The Telegraph in November 2016
Article in Hindustan Times in August 2016
Article in The Guardian in March 2016
Dhrubajyoti Ghosh to receive Luc Hoffmann Award - 17 August 2016 - Ramsar.org
Article in The Statesman – 9 August 2016
The miracle of Kolkata's wetlands – 9 March 2016 - The Guardian
End Illegal Trade in Arms - Times of India - 1 December 2015
© 2014 Dr. Dhrubajyoti Ghosh