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A community that is spearheading a drive to conserve the wetlands that it relies on– and that thousands of species call home. It’s located on one of the world’s most polluted lakes. Through a series of initiatives, locals now have their sights set on becoming a model wetland village.

Credits:

Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla Video Editor: Amit Garg (Metro Media Works)

Field Producer and Script: Abhishyant Kidangoor Associate Producer: Ipsita Basu Production Assistant: Anushree Director of Photography: Sahal Hameed

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ABHISHYANT KIDANGOOR The Airbus Foundation and the Connected Conservation Foundation have announced the third edition of the Satellites for …Third edition of Satellites for Biodiversity Award opens for applications

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New satellite data documents deforestation across ecosystems worldwide

By Abhishyant Kidangoor When it comes to monitoring deforestation, tropical rainforests rightfully get the lion’s share of attention. However, as climate change-induced natural disasters and conversion of natural lands for agriculture increase in frequency and intensity, it becomes even more imperative to track vegetation across ecosystems. A new product by the makers of Global Forest Watch, the…

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Lalita Tripurasundari wood carving on temple ceiling in Kerala, photos by Ramesh Kidangoor

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WHY can't we fight for our Democracy the same way Hong Kong’s people fight for theirs⁉️⁉️⁉️

"I want to live in a place that upholds the core value that I believe." Hong Kong's Ventus Lau is the face of a faceless protest.

The Face of a Faceless Protest: Meet Hong Kong's Ventus Lau

By HILLARY LEUNG, ABHISHYANT KIDANGOOR  | Published July 26, 2019 | Time | Posted July 27, 2019 |

Standing at the top of a staircase, a young man addresses a couple of thousand anti-government demonstrators.

“Our protest today is peaceful and elegant, right?” he asks. His voice reverberates across the park where the protesters are gathered and prompts a resounding chorus of agreement: “We are the most elegant protestors in the world!”

The street protests that have rocked Hong Kong in recent weeks have been mostly leaderless. Protestors don masks and use online aliases to conceal their identities. They organize themselves via the encrypted messaging app Telegram and exchange information via mass Airdrops. But Ventus Lau is slowly rising from the sea of black-shirted anonymity.

The 25-year-old is quick to disavow any sort of leadership role — “I just see myself as a coordinator,” he tells TIME. He emphasizes that he is no different to other protesters, who are united by their youth and opposition to what they see as China’s encroachment on the former British colony’s political freedoms. But he has organized two major rallies and thanks to television, he’s becoming a recognizable face.

Lau was born in Hong Kong to working class parents and raised in a public housing project. The furthest he traveled during his childhood was by train to the southern Chinese city of Guilin, a little over 500 kilometers away; he didn’t set foot on a plane until he turned 18. Culturally, he was raised on a diet of movies and pop music in Cantonese — the language spoken in Hong Kong, which is mutually incomprehensible with the Mandarin spoken in mainland China. In short, his youth was typical of Hongkongers of his age and background.

So is his mistrust of Beijing, which developed early. He recalls taking part in protests while still in high school — against a high-speed rail link connecting the enclave with the rest of China. Proponents of the link argued that it was beneficial to the local economy to put Beijing within nine hours of Hong Kong via bullet train. Detractors, on the other hand, saw the project as tying semi-autonomous Hong Kong too closely to China and argued that the $10.8 billion spent building the link would have been better spent locally.

“I discovered then that the Hong Kong political system is an unjust system,” he says. “There are representatives [of the elite in the legislature] who oppose all the good suggestions from the public. It’s necessary to change our political system, otherwise Hong Kong people will never be the owners of this city.”

Lau’s political sensibilities were honed in university, where he read Chinese literature and headed up a so-called “localist” organization, dedicated to the promotion of greater autonomy for Hong Kong. But it wasn’t long before politics became more important than his studies. He dropped out to become an assistant to local councilors, organizing events, drafting letters to government departments, and fielding queries from residents. He also became the convenor of a grassroots community organization. Lau took to the work — so much so that he ran for a seat in Hong Kong’s legislature in 2018, hoping to replace the ousted candidate of a localist party.

The outcome of his candidacy was a political reality check. Amonth into the campaign, he was disqualified on the grounds that he had previously showed support for an independent Hong Kong on his Facebook page. Authorities said his separatist views counter to Hong Kong’s Basic Law, the mini constitution that has governed the territory since it was retroceded to China in 1997.

Dejected, Lau moved back home to live with his parents, who told him it was “time he found a real job.” He got work as a freelance debate tutor to high school students, training the next generation in the rhetorical skills they would need to navigate an increasingly politicized and polarized society.

“As a debate tutor, you encourage students to contribute their own strengths to the team,” he says, adding that when the current round of Hong Kong protests began in June, he brought exactly these skills to coordinating demonstrators, among them skilled designers, translators and lawyers who volunteered their time for the movement.

‘Young people have a feeling of hopelessness’

The government’s attempt, earlier this year, to introduce a bill that would have allowed extradition to China for the first time sparked massive demonstrations — and Lau’s return to politics after a brief hiatus. Like many in Hong Kong, he feared that the bill would be used by Beijing to apprehend not fugitive criminals but dissidents and political opponents. He took to the streets and was in his element.

When several large scale demonstrations failed to persuade the government to formally withdraw the bill — organizers claim that as many as two million people participated in a march on June 16 — Lau took it upon himself to organize different kinds of protests to keep the momentum going. The first was a march on the consulates of G20 nations in Hong Kong, ahead of the G20 summit on Osaka in June. At each consulate, protesters handed over a letter soliciting foreign support in their push for greater freedoms. The second, on July 7, was a march through a shopping district popular with visitors from mainland China, when he addressed a crowd that numbered in the tens of thousands. The idea behind the march was to make the tourists aware of Hong Kong’s plight — the first time that protesters had tried to reach out to their mainland compatriots.

Lau hoped to mobilize higher participation through this different approach. Protesters, he says, “might think, ‘Oh, this is something we haven’t tried before, so I should come out this time because maybe it will work.'”

Over the past month, Hong Kong’s protests have evolved beyond the issue of extradition into demands for wider political reform. Echoing the core demand of the the 2014 pro-democracy push known as the Umbrella Revolution, demonstrators are demanding for the city’s top official to be elected by universal suffrage instead of the present electoral college of mostly pro-Beijing figures. Some demonstrators are calling for self-determination for Hong Kong — even independence.

Wong Yiu Ching, an adjunct professor at Lingnan University, says Lau’s generation of activists has a “natural sense of justice” and has come to the “conclusion that China is a totalitarian regime, compared with Hong Kong which is at least a partial democracy.”

Antony Dapiran, a Hong Kong-based lawyer and author of City of Protest: A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong, believes the protests are emblematic of people’s deep-seated frustrations at their political system. “The underlying issue in the city is the lack of democracy. Until that’s addressed, this cycle of protests will continue,” he says.

Read more: How Hong Kong’s Fight for Freedom Is a Global Battle

Others point out that discontent will persist so long as economic opportunities remain limited for many of Hong Kong’s people. The city consistently tops lists of the world’s most expensive places to live in. Soaring property prices, alongside stagnant salaries, mean that young people cannot avail themselves of what previous generations considered a birthright: the chance to buy a small flat, flip it, and move up the social ladder.

“Young people have a feeling of hopelessness about the city and the future,” Ip Iam-chong, an assistant professor at Lingnan University, says. “It’s much harder now to achieve upward social mobility, to own an apartment or to have a middle class way of life than before.”

Lau currently spends a lot of time at his girlfriend’s tiny, 250 sq. ft. home, which costs about $1,700 a month to rent in the gentrifying neighborhood of Prince Edward. They plan to move into a bigger place together, “but first, we’d need money,” he says. On the way, he passes dozens of street food stalls and hawkers touting everything from handbags to smartphone accessories, and takes a couple of wrong turns before confessing he’s not good with directions. “I can say that of my life, too” he says with a rueful chuckle.

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HC declines to give lawyer Saiby Jose Kidangoor relief from arrest

The Kerala High Court on Monday declined to pass an interim order restraining the police from arresting High Court lawyer Saiby Jose Kidangoor in a case registered in connection with allegations that he had collected money from clients under the pretext of bribing High Court judges. When his petition seeking to quash the case came up for hearing, senior counsel appearing for him sought a…

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Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire you to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow.

Urban greenery is not just about providing space for relaxation. It can mean much more. For example, it can be used for growing food. In the southern city of Thiruvananthapuram, this idea is helping to solve a multitude of problems.

Credits:

Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla

Script & Field Producer: Abhishyant Kidangoor

Video Editor: Sujit Lad

Associate Producer: Ipsita Basu

Director of Photography: Sahal Hameed

Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu

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Father Kottoor, Sister Sephy get life term for Sr Abhaya’s murder

Father Kottoor, Sister Sephy get life term for Sr Abhaya’s murder

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The CBI special court here, on Wednesday, awarded life sentence to Father Thomas Kottoor, and Sister Sephy, on charges of murder of Sister Abhaya, 21, in 1992 and subsequently destroying evidence. On Tuesday, CBI judge K Sanilkumar had found Father Thomas Kottoor, 71, of Kottoor House, Kidangoor, Kottayam, guilty of charges of murder, destruction of evidence and criminal house…

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Lalita, temple ceiling, Kerala, photo by Ramesh Kidangoor

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Shinomon Chacko, 32, a resident of Kidangoor in Aluva, had made a Facebook post complete with a picture announcing his intention to illegally brew country liquor using pineapples, which he claimed to have brought in bulk from his wife’s house at Muvattupuzha.

Not stopping at that, he went on to ask for the blessings of everyone, including the excise department.

The post was widely shared on the social media and came to the notice of the Excise Commissioner who immediately alerted the Ernakulam Deputy Excise Commissioner.

The accused was charged under Sections 8 (1) and (2) of the Abkari Act.

Illegal brewing has soared exponentially across the State ever since liquor outlets and bars were closed at the start of the country-wide lockdown.

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Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire you to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow.

Agriculture is the main source of livelihood for more than half of India’s population. Most farmers are poor, and many struggle to survive. New techniques hold out the promise of improving their productivity and income. One is aquaponics – a resource-saving system that marries fish and vegetable farming. We visited India's first aquaponics village – which aims to become fully self-sufficient for all its food needs.

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Credits:

Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla

Script & Field Producer: Abhishyant Kidangoor Video Editor: Amit Garg Associate Producer: Ipsita Basu

Director of Photography: Sahal Hameed

Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu