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  • A 30 year saga

    Sriprakash, whose previous film, Kiski Raksha (Whose Safety), on Netarhat - which presented the conflict between the army and local tribes - has finished his second film. Addo Milad

  • CURSOR

    No more John Brunner, the noted British science fiction writer, died of a heart attack at the age of 60. Brunner was well known for experimenting with form and paid great attention to

  • Will the Aral Sea ever come back?

    Will the Aral Sea ever come back?

    "Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling shore of the world"s fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea, tell a graphic tale of the human toll caused by am of the w

  • Clues to the way we are

    The past couple of decades has seen massive progress in the field of genetics and its role in individual differences and developments. Development and behavioural potential of individuals is

  • Patently interesting

    Those who wanted to know all about patents and trade- marks but didn't know where to find it can now help themselves through books like Patent Wars (Fred

    • 14/10/1995

  • Educative entertainment

    The New Science Journalists is packed with the kind of science reporting that is intelligent, well-written, entertaining and educative. The editors of the book, like the participants of

  • The roots of knowledge

    Noted agro-economist N S Jodha had said in one of his papers that "in the search for innovativeness in drought management, public policies have bypassed an important source of insight -- the coping

  • Rules on paper

    Rules on paper

    CANADIAN and US newsprint producers are increasingly evading their governments' environmental regulations which require a recycled content of 4060 per cent in newsprint. "But when there is a

  • Breast milk ban uproar

    Breast milk ban uproar

    The British government's volte face on the ban on advertising breast milk substitutes has triggered alarm in medical circles. On March 1, the government tabled before Parliament a watered down

  • Behind the buzzword

    Behind the buzzword

    The NGO movement in South Asia has come a long way in the past 10 years. Last month, a panel discussion between some of them emphasised introspection and self-repair

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