Aravallis, air and environmental reckoning we face

₹7 crore and ₹10 crore, comparable with the price of a high-end apartment in South Delhi or South Mumbai. People are moving to these places for a relaxed pace of life. This is the reason for the 65% year-on-year rise in real estate prices in this sleepy, peaceful coastal province.Goa isn’t alone.

The situation is the same in places like Dehradun, Nainital and Haridwar. Peaceful and languid locales near every metro are facing the same pressures.I would like to draw your attention to a research report published in Communications Earth and Environment. The report discusses the reasons for the decline and fall of our ancient Indus Valley Civilization.

Our forefathers built a civilization six millennia before Christ, at a time when much of the world was still forested. People still marvel at the cities like Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro that had roads intersecting at right angles, with drainage facilities and baked bricks created by our forefathers.We also find highly developed agriculture and grain storage systems in Indus Valley Civilization.If you still have doubts kindly visit Dholavira in Gujarat’s Kutch area. Here water was purified using a three-layered sand structure.

The British used the same technique in many other cities across India. How come a civilization, so advanced and thoughtful just vanished? Theories ranging from foreign invaders, floods, earthquake, to droughts etc. as a cause of its demise have been propounded.

But the new research says the complexities of urban life forced people to move to hamlets and villages. Cities around Indus started hollowing out. This was also one of the many reasons for the decline of the entire civilization.Is the same process being repeated today?Since Covid, exodus from the