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
India
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Driven to pollution
The energy, especially oil, consumed to transport goods and people is galloping. Almost uncontrollable urbanisation in India, especially in and around the larger cities, highlights the acute problems
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Teasing death
The trials run before introducing drugs into the market are peppered with death-inviting inaccuracies and even brazen lies
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A fluid paradox
International aid agencies and local people do not agree on what tastes like real water
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Top quark nabbed
THE elusive top quark has at last been nabbed: 2 competing teams of quark-hunters at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) at Illinois, usa, caught the last undiscovered quark of the
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Laying India to waste
Greenpeace sounds a red alert about toxic waste imports into India at workshops across the country
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Ancient tribe, modern manners'
There exists a canon of empirical literature on Indian tribes. But there has been no adequate explanation of the present status and the process of change of these societies. This well-written and
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Blood read
A new instrument measures the concentration of haemoglobin in the blood
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The rules to be broken
EVERY show is a dress rehearsal for the next one. This adage, so familiar with thespians, holds true for drugs, too. But the note is deadlier. Naturally, any drug must go through a rigorous series
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Patent problems
An surge of gene patents in Europe threatens to overwhelm the law
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Monumental screening
The history of Humayun's Tomb has been captured on a software programme