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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Tele talk
The first ever weekly telemagazine on the subject of Ayurveda will be beamed on Doordarshan very shortly. The magazine has been named Amrit Pravah. Its production is being managed by Virendra
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Unveiling the past
People are now realising that the solutions to many modern problems lie buried somewhere in our traditional sciences
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The slide's roots
Tracing their origins to Lord Vishwakarma, the mythological source of all creative intellect, India's artisans evolved into a distinct social group with the emergence of settled agriculture and
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The minister and the menace
A recent workshop on people's management of the Rajaji National Park brought out in full fury the debate whether the local communities are wiser managers of forests or the menace threatening them. While the environment and forests minister, RAJESH PILOT,
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A comission of no good?
The Khadi and Village Industry Commission (KVIC) was setup in 1957 to cover 10 village industries, besides khadi (cottage or handloom weaving). In 1987, its scope was expanded to 96 industries, as
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Piloting disaster
I WOULD like to strongly denounce the message sent by Rajesh Pilot to this august assembly to discuss people's management of the Riljaji National Park by the Van Gujjars. It appears from his message
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Caught red handed
The CBI now focuses its eagle eyes on truant NGOs for alleged misuse of funds
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A dream gone sour
The Vaijnath Leather Complex (VlC) established in 1962 in Bardoli, Gujarat, was hailed as a model of governmeritj intervention to revive the village leather industry. "Its founding fathers had
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Clean drive in Himachal
Proposed amendments to this pristine state's Forest Act make a fresh draft blow envisaged over ecological developments
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The wasted land
THE mythic origins of Jodhpur's water crisis go back to the time when the Rao Jodha clan laid claim to the rocky outcrop that was to be the-Mehrangarh fort about 500 years ago. But to do so, they