WHAT YOU CAN DO -
Raise your AWAAZ against Noise Pollution!

RECENT 



Report on  Noise Pollution Ganpati Visarjan
​5th September and 9th September 2022

"How escalating climate events threatens food security across the globe"
Forbes India
8th September 2022

Feature Article on sand mining
Le Monde,
6th September 2022

"Agriculture and Climate" 
Forbes,  India 
September 2022

Report on Noise Pollution
Janmashthami 
19th August 2022
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Presentation at Auxillium Convent High Scholl
Bandra, Mumbai
15th August 2022

"Why severe Landslides are on the rise"
Sumaira Abdulali, Forbes India
3rd August 2022

Fourth training session Maharashtra traffic police on noise pollution
Sumaira Abdulali,
7th July 2022

Address at 1-year anniversary  protest and Satyagriha against beach sand mining
Thottapally, Kerala
12th June 2022

World Environment Day Presentation to Brahmakumaris
5th June 2022

"World Environment Day: Noise, climate change, and the disappearance of species"
Forbes India
5th June 2022

International Day of Biological Diversity 2022: Not all urban greenery is created equal"
Sumaira Abdulali,  Forbes India 
22nd May 2022

"Heatwaves: A vicious climate change circle"
Sumaira Abdulali, Naandika Tripathi, Forbes India
13th May 2022

"As politicians squabble over loudspeakers, an appeal for quiet on International Noise Awareness Day"
Sumaira Abdulali, Scroll.in
27th April 2022

“Noise pollution is a health menace; don't politicise it”
Sumaira Abdulali, Times of India
27th April 2022

​“Noise Pollution: When will the Government wake up?"
Sumaira Abdulai, Take One, Big Story of the Day, Forbes India
27th April 2022

To give 'Gati Shakti' to  CoP26 promises, India needs to spend more
Sumaira Abdulali, News9,
9th April 2022

Third training session Maharashtra traffic police on noise pollution
Sumaira Abdulali,
21st April 2022
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“Let's go: Recycle construction, demolition waste”
Sumaira Abdulali, Times of India
7th April 2022

Second training session Maharashtra traffic police on noise pollution
Sumaira Abdulali,
31st March 2022

SakalSanman Award to Sumaira Abdulali
25th March 2022
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Press Note on release of illustrated book “Raise your AWAAZ against Noise Pollution"
15th March 2022

WHAT YOU CAN DO
"Raise your AWAAZ against Noise Pollution” 
Released by Awaaz foundation and Mumbai Police
15th March 2022

“Mumbai climate action Plan 2022: All you need to know”
Sumaira Abdulali, Times of India
15th March 2022

Awareness campaign with Mumbai Police on social media
February 2022  

“Women and the woes of sand mining"
Sumaira Abdulai, Take One, Big Story of the Day, Forbes India
8th March 2022

"Climate Action a 'priority sector', but Sitharaman makes no budgetary allocation for it"
Sumaira Abdulai, Take One, Big Story of the Day, Forbes India
1st February 2022

“The perils of Horn Ok Please: noise, speeding and rash driving”
Sumaira Abdulai, Take One, Big Story of the Day, Forbes India
31st January 2022

”Indian women working on United Nations’ sustainable development goals”
Sumaira Abdulali, Times of India,
20th January 2022

बेढंगे विकास से पश्चिमी घाट का विनाश
छाया व आलेख: सुमेरा अब्दुलअली
हिंदी अनुवाद: नीलकंठ पारटकर वरिष्ठ पत्रकार
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​विकासाच्या नावाखाली पश्चिम घाटाचा विनाश 
छाया व लेख: सुमैरा अब्दुलअली
मराठी भाषांतर: नीलकंठ पारटकर, वरिष्ठ पत्रकार

“Every bit of warming matters”
New Year Special - 22 for 2022,
Forbes India,
14th January 2022

“Community action seizes the Day”
Times of India,
1st January 2022

“Mumbai witnessing a steady decline in festival noise”
Sumaira Abdulali, Times of India,
30th December 2021

“Firecrackers: the pollution we consciously choose"
Sumaira Abdulali, Take One, big Story of the Day, Forbes India
28th December 2021

“Noise pollution from honking: the need for an enforcement drive”
Sumaira Abdulali, Times of India
24th December 2021

Book Launch of SHE IS at the US Consulate
ElsaMarie Silva and Red Dot Foundation
17th December 2021

"Air pollution from construction: A tale of two ‘polluted’ cities”
Sumaira Abdulali, Times of India
29th November 2021

"Devastation in the Western Ghats in the name of unplanned development"
Sumaira Abdulali, Take One, big Story of the Day, Forbes India
29th November 2021

SHE IS Book launch, featuring a chapter on Sumaira Abdulali
ElsaMarie D’souza and Red Dot Foundation
25th November 2021

SPROUTS and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung 2nd International Sustainability Conference 2021
12-14th November 2021

"Why beach sand mining is so dangerous”
Sumaira Abdulali, Times of India
11th November 2021

COP26: Will India commit to or cop-out of climate negotiations?
Sumaira Abdulali, Take One, big Story of the Day, Forbes India
8th November 2021

Report on Noise and Air Pollution
Diwali 2021
4th November 2021

Climate Change
The Federal Webinar
30th October 2021

Report on firecracker testing for Noise Pollution
Awaaz Foundation and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board
21st October 2021
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Report on Eid e Milad 
19th October 2021

First training session Maharashtra traffic police on noise pollution
Sumaira Abdulali,
October 2021

Letter to Shri Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport
Please do not permit musical horns
​5th October 2021

World Habitat Day: India’s Power Sector must lead coal phase-out
Sumaira Abdulali & Tanuja Pandit,
Forbes India, Take One:Big Story of the Day
4th October 2021

Report on Noise Pollution Ganpati 2021
19th September 2021
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​“Air pollution is now a matter of life and death”
 Sumaira Abdulali, TakeOne:Big Story of the Day, Forbes India
7th September 2021

Zero Waste Week
IIT Bombay Panel Discussion
​5th September 2021

Noise Pollution: The Not So Silent Killer
Let India Breathe
​5th September 2021 
#AWAAZFORACTION WRITINGS 



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PUBLISHED WRITING
Forbes India 
Times of India
​Mumbai Mirror
Others
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TEDx Talks
PRESENTATIONS, TALKS, SEMINARS
#AWAAZFORACTION WEBINARS

SAND MINING

REPORTS ON LOUDSPEAKERS AND FESTIVALS


​​REPORTS ON CONSTRUCTION,
​TRAFFIC AND RAILWAY NOISE


REPORTS ON AIR POLLUTION and
​FIRECRACKERS

AIR POLLUTION ADVOCACY AND AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS

NOISE POLLUTION AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS

LITIGATION 

Noise Pollution
Sand mining
Sawantwadi-Dodamarg

PUBLICATIONS
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Noise Pollution
Sand Mining
"Noise Annoys" Column in Times of India 
"Mumbai Speaks Up" Column in Times of India
Four-part series on sand mining, Mumbai Mirror
Other Publications 


​FEATURE STORIES and INTERVIEWS

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Noise Pollution
Sand Mining


​NEWS

Noise Pollution
Sand Mining
Sawantwadi-Dodamarg
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