Good morning [%first_name |Dear Reader%],

The end of the year is nigh. Lionel Messi has added a World Cup winners’ title to his CV. All the waves—crypto, resignation, regret, remorse, whatnot—seem to have subsided… 

And with that, a sense of relief and optimism is washing over some of us that 2023 will be better. 

To be honest, I wanted to write about something light, or even funky in this edition—like how using psychedelics can unlock the “codes to environmental and social change”. But then I stumbled upon this piece of news: Pradyut Bordoloi, first-time MP from Assam, who served three terms as MLA in the Assam Legislative Assembly before that, has introduced a Private Members Bill in the ongoing session of the Parliament. (Some 16 new bills are being tabled in 17 days this winter). 

Bordoloi’s private bill is called—The Climate Migrants (Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2022. And it is meant to “establish an appropriate policy framework for the protection and rehabilitation of internally displaced climate migrants and for all matters connected therewith and incidental thereto”.