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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Stellar showbiz
Still a source of wonder for some, no great shakes for others, the recent total solar eclipse was a memorable spectacle
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Neemm manim, what else
The brouhaha about neern patents gets a forceful rebuttal
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The genius, the media's darling
TO COMMENCE a review of Pais' recent book, with 'he does it again', would take away its poignancy. His previous work, Subtle is the Lord, dealt with Einstein's science and his life. This
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Herbs, religion and occult
Indian traditional medicine and practices experimented with immortality
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Plastic ploys
Dendrimers are about to revolutionise the age of polymers
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Plagued by rats
In the months of August and September 1994, panic gripped the country as news of the plague epidemic in Surat spread. Few had cared to ponder over the possibility that the Latur earthquake would have a deadly sequel. That the rodent borne disease w
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Ray scan
High energy cosmic rays, amongst the most perplexing objects in astrophysics, have energies upto a hundred billion billion electron volts (a proton's mass is only a billion electron
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Tiny terrors
Ecological changes have favoured their growth. They cannot be decimated. Then how do you cope with this rodent problem, asks ANAMITRA CHOUDHURY
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Lake of misery
On August 28, the district collector of Karnataka's Ranga Reddy district issued an order to release water from the Saroornagar lake in Hyderabad. But the High Court stayed the order which was
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Living problems
GARBAGE strewn all around... green pastures for flies ... long queues with containers at the tubewells --- and a sea of humanity crawling out of shanties to go about their daily routines. This