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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IN FOCUS
The war of whales goes on. With the whaling season about to begin in the north Atlantic and the north Pacific, leading conservation groups recently urged US President Bill Clinton to take
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INDIA
• More than 40 people were killed and hundreds injured when a massive earthquake hit Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district in the earthquake- prone Narmada valley on May 22. The earthquake,
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Green puzzle
A cross section of opinions in response to 'Dark truths and lost woods' pages 31 41 by ANIL AGARWAL
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Rickshaws to the rescue
WHEN the Delhi Rickshaw Chalak-Malik Sangharsh Morcha (rickshaw drivers and owners agitation committee) staged a demonstration in front of the office of the Municipal corporation of Delhi (MCD) on
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Back to the future
finally from April 1997 after years of dithering, ignoring world opinion, and consistently downplaying the deleterious health effects of pesticides like dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (ddt) and
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Bad medicine
A drug suspected of having disastrous side effects is being used as a contraceptive in Delhi
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Troubled waters
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SHRIPAD DHARMADHIKARYmuch water has flown down the rivers of this world and many
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Idle India
While most countries have instituted measures to ensure sustainable use of resources, India remains idle
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Empathy first
Life ad death for the ordiary Indian citizen have become mere statistics
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City blues
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BHANUSINGHA GHOSH out of a world population of 5,384 million in 1991, about 43 per