From The Marginlands
From The Marginlands with Prem and Arati takes unabashed deep-dives into uncomfortable environmental issues. We converse with carefully curated guests on the art of telling stories about the environment and on climate change as it manifests around the world.
From The Marginlands
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When Rains Fail, What Should The City Do? Vishwanath Suggests ...
The 2026 monsoon is failing, the Cauvery catchment is running dry, and the reservoirs feeding Bengaluru are alarmingly low. So Arati Kumar-Rao and Prem Panicker call back the one person who can tell us what it means: S. Vishwanath, who first ar...
What Are The Real Risks To Our Health? We Ask Dr. Soumya Swaminathan
Most people in health pick a lane — clinician, researcher, or policymaker. Dr. Soumya Swaminathan has been all three for forty years: a paediatrician who became a leading TB and HIV researcher, then the WHO's first-ever Chief Scientist, steerin...
Why Care About the Environment? (When People Are Being Killed) -- Mahesh Rangarajan
A young person once asked: why care about nature when people are dying in Gaza? Environmental historian Mahesh Rangarajan gives the long answer — why the choice between people and the planet was always false.In previous episodes of this...
If A City Forgets Itself, What Lies Ahead? We Ask Harini Nagendra
n this episode of From The Marginlands, Arati Kumar-Rao and Prem Panicker speak with ecologist and writer Harini Nagendra about the lost ecological memory of Bengaluru — a city once shaped by lakes, wetlands, trees and commons that sustained bo...
What is life like in the Sundarbans? Annu Jalais Weighs In
In the second episode of Season 2 of From the Marginlands, Arati Kumar-Rao and Prem Panicker speak with environmental social anthropologist Annu Jalais, whose 27+ years of research in the Sundarbans reveals a world far more complex than standar...
