First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Traditional Knowledge
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Legacy of an empire
Encouraged by their ninth century benevolent rulers, Gond landlords and villagers had set up an intricate and immensely useful network of <i>katas</i> , traditional water harvesting structu res. But modern disinterest and apathy have served to decimate
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Irrigation provenders
Orissa s <i>katas, bandhs</i> and <i>mundas</i> have played a stellar role in reducing severity of famines and droughts
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Reasons for despair
How have these testimonials to Gond foresight fallen to the present sorry state?
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Martial ambience
Chittor occupies a significant position in Rajasthan's history
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Departure from tradition
Chittor's age old water harvesting systerns are looked at with disdain today
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Ranthambhore's water bodies
Ranthambhore has five large water bodies - Jangali talab, Suksagar talab, Kalasagar, Padmala talab and Renee haud. There is also one perennial spring known as Gupt Ganga. All the talabs have a
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Treasure down under
A novel experiment in Gujarat undertakes the detection of soil microbial diversity
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In crisis
The desert city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan is an excellent example of how Thoughtless processes of modernisation and urbanisation have destroyed an extraordinary water management system
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Tale of a baori
Forgetting the lessons of a drought, Jodhpur's residents neglect the Tapi baori
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Troubled times
Heavy sedimentation, high evaporative and seepage losses and water pollution are some of the problems afflicting nadis