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
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The pitch factor
A part from sizing up goods on the basis of their price tags, the Indian consumer will soon be able to compare them according to the noise they make. The National Committee for Noise Pollution
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Power pangs
Nepal's ministry of water resources has threatened the Bhote Koshi Power Company (BKPC), the first privately funded US power project in the country, with punitive action. Responding to the findings
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A precious lesson:
Ten Indian states have been pulled up by the Supreme Court (SC) for neglecting its orders on the inclusion of environment as a subject in school curricula. Those reprimanded are Maharashtra, Madhya
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Reinvent the mobility idea
When I think of the government s newly cleared Auto Fuel Policy, the image of Nero fiddling while Rome burnt comes to mind. The document apparently sets the roadmap to meet clean air targets in
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Can you change my destiny?
MUNGLI DEVI Bhansiya Chana, Almora district The six villages of Bhansiya Chana gram sabha in Shereghat, Almora district, Uttaranchal, share the water of river Jaiganga, a tributary of river Saryu.
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A photographer's exposure to reality
At the end of each photo journalistic journey I make, it finally comes down to this those first moments of nervous discovery. It was then that the parallel began to grow on me. The twin realities of one image!
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Is a 24 hour water supply possible?
An answer to this question was attempted at a workshop organised in Hyderabad, from September 23 24, 2003, by the Administrative Staff College of India ASCI and Water and Sanitation Program WSP South Asia
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The negotiators
Of India's 18 major rivers, 17 are inter state. In all cases, the water is intensely fought over. In all cases, there seems no resolution. In such a situation, can modern India take a page or two out of the traditional water manager's unwritten manual on
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The Right to recall
Palavika Patel, the former president of Anuppur municipality in Madhya Pradesh, India and Gray Davis, former governor of California, usa are two distinct fall outs of participatory democracy. In 2002, voters of extremely poor Anuppur and in 2003, voters
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Sponge iron y
Orissa turning into a haven for the hazardous industry