Stepwell Radio

War doesn't just cost lives and money…it costs land. Military bases, border walls, testing ranges: built without environmental review, impossible to challenge, and left behind long after the mission ends. Forests cleared, water poisoned, migration routes severed—all filed under "national security," where nobody's allowed to ask questions.We call it defense. The ecosystems footing the bill don't get a say.

What happens when a conflict stretches beyond the headlines and into the everyday lives of people?Our latest episode looks at the Manipur conflict, exploring the events, histories, and human experiences that have shaped one of India’s most complex and painful crises. Moving beyond the immediate news cycle, the episode asks difficult questions about identity, displacement, violence, and the possibilities of reconciliation.“To understand Manipur is to look beyond the headlines - to the people, histories, and fractures that shape the conflict.”We invite you to listen, reflect, and engage with a story that deserves attention, context, and empathy.Tune in as we question what lies beneath the headlines, and what it takes to understand a conflict through the lives of those who have lived it.

Story of Earth captured through a Golden record. Images, sounds, music and greetings to something, we don’t even know truly exists.Floating in space, we don’t know when it will reach it’s destination but it still carries an essence of humanity so far away.

Poaching’s down, but that’s not the threat anymore.A government is quietly signing away the rhinos’ flood refuge for a hotel pool. Farmers who’ve worked that land for generations are branded encroachers. This is profit dressed up as progress, and no one’s calling it out.We break down exactly how it’s happening.