A Marxist approach to understanding ecology
Two seminal books, John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York’s The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth and John Bellamy Foster’s The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet
Personalities
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Sunita Narain : A resolute environmentalist
Sunita Narain, a resolute environmentalist has been with the Centre for Science and Environment since 1982. Sunita Narain is currently the Director of the Centre and of the Society for Environmental Communication, and publisher of the fortnightly magazine, 'Down to Earth'.
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Veerbhadra Mishra on Ganga Action Plan
Veerbhadra Mishra heads the Sankat Mochan Foundation, an NGO at the forefront in trying to revive the Ganga s fortunes in Varanasi. A man who wears many hats head priest of the Sankat Mochan Temple, a former engineer, an activist Mishra tells Pradip S
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Empowering Soliga Tribes: 'Sudarshan Model' of Karnataka
The work in the B R Hills of Karnataka by H Sudarshan, a medical doctor, on the primary healthcare of the Soliga tribes is a rare example of the role of equity, social justice, maximum community participation and empowerment of the people, in addition to the encouragement of indigenous and traditional systems of medicine, in a successful community health programme.
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Saviour of songs
Komal Kothari 1929-2004 Renowned folk imagist Komal Kothari passed away in Jodhpur on April 20 after a prolonged bout with cancer. He was 75. Komalda, as everyone fondly called him, will be
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"We need to think about all of us as being citizens of the same world"
Joseph E Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics the Economics of Information. This earned him the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001. He was also chief economist at the World Bank and a cabinet member of the Clinton administration. He is the au
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Satirist Dario Fo sued
Nobel Prize winning Italian playwright Dario Fo has been sued for defaming Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in his new satire The Two headed Anomaly
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Very approachable
in 1995, a slightly nervous student at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi asked his teacher the bare essentials of doing well in academics. The slightly
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Parmjit Singh Sehra
Meet the only Indian scientist to have visited the South Pole
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Realities unmasked
A look at the prescribed guidelines for PCB appointments reveals glaring loopholes
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Contending with Darwin
The man who chipped away at every presumption that defined evolutionary science