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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A deep breath of fatal dust
An incurable lung disease digs the grave for workers employed in sandstone mines and brick and cement factories
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No news is bad news
A dearth of information brought brickbats to the department of wastelands development, which was entrusted the Herculean task of reducing the pressure on the forests
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Cross words
When it comes to industries in Delhi, authorities seem to revel in working at cross purposes
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A fig for social concerns
The holy cow of structural adjustments holds supreme sway, leaving the people to shift for themselves
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Bark and bite
A whopping 25,000 people formed a human chain in Kerala's Jeerakappara forest to rally against the wanton destruction wrought by encroachers
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The margins of development
FOR sheer numbers, the coming together last fortnight of the dam-affected people of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan at Deoli in the Tonk district of the last named state was a small affair, but
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Capital pollution
It's not just illegal factories that are to blame; industrial estates are also culpable
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Mushroom magic
In a recent breakthrough, an Indian mushroom has been found to be extremely effective in controlling heavy metal pollution
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Counting on origami
The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes empowers tribals with the knowledge of mathematics
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The continuing irrelevance of Agenda 21
AGENDA 12 resources to the South have been consistently falling - and there hangs the threat of a further plummet. Even the North- initiated Global Environment Facility has failed to raise the