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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It's too darned hot!
As global temperatures seethe, the earth is no more a cool haven
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Tribal treasure
A new serial on India's tribal heritage will soon hit Doordarshan's Channel 3. Bappa Roy, recipient of three President's awards for his anthropological and ethnographic films, is the
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Under siege
The impasse in Manipur, which represents the festering unrest in the entire Northeast, needs a caring administrative policy, not bullets and raids
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The water war
The watermark offailure on the Government of India's mantle glares everybody in theface, as two warring riparian states flex their muscles in the absence of an effective national water management policy
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Mean model
The modalities of the model much acclaimed Kerala Model cannot survive long on self denial
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Licence to kill?
The Bangladesh ministry of environment and forests has decided to grant licence to parties interested in setting up private farms for breeding and rearing wildlife species. The recent decision
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People's trees
When the earth gave birth to this free, There came no sound, A green shoot thrust In silence from the ground. Our births don't come so Quiet
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Pest of a problem
Despite stringent criticism directed at its safety standards, DDT still rules as the major pesticide used by India's health sector
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Teaching the taught
Eighty lakhsmaliscalefishworkers went on a strike allover India in January 1996, to protest against the government issuing licenses to largefishing vehicles. The Food and Agricultural Organization is insisting that states and stakeholders follow a