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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Finding a job
What is saddest in India is that unemployment is not even a top issue of public and political concern today. The government does not have a think tank to identify public policies to deal with this problem
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TWISTING FACTS
The Supreme Court of India came down heavily on the Manali-based Span Motels Private Ltd for changing the course of the Beas river. The court ordered the owners to shift the motel away from the banks
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An end to cooking woes
Dharamitra, in its search for more sustainable ways of living, has come up with a new kind of cooker
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For whom the school bells toll?
India s education policy has only sought to alienate the students and also deepen the urban rural divide<font class="UCASE">the </font> education system in India has faced a basic dilemma ever since its introduction by the British.
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Solutions forever
Dharamitra, a Wardha based organisation, has been working on many projects and, with active participation of the local people, is ensuring a greener future
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Tribals are being treated like stray cattle
<font class='Question'> Twenty seven year old <font class='UCASE'>chekkoth karian janu</font> has never attended school. But this has not prevented her from becoming a champion of the rights of the adivasi community native to Wayanad Kerala to wh
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Partisan and patently painful
how many miles must a Bill traverse before you can call it an Act? Apparently, there is no end to this. The recent case of the secretary in the department of industrial development (ministry of
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Temple of doom
hirakud, one of the largest and the oldest dams in the country, has developed cracks. Its leaking walls may fall apart any time and sweep away the coastal delta of Puri and Cuttack. The Orissa
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Hot and anxious
<p>Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of the current phase of warming. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/COP-DTE-1996.pdf"
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Burn water!
A college dropout from a south Indian village, has produced a form of crude, low sulphur petroleum by mixing water and some herbs, shown that it can run engines in science labs and vehicles on the road and is now awaiting further research and a patent