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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Just shifting the issue
As the authorities dither and bicker over how to combat pollution in the Capital, industrial units proliferate and entrench themselves virtually unchecked
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Linking up to stay afloat
People affected by an irrigation project in Rajasthan are not only speaking out collectively against the insensitivity, they are teaming up with others in same soup
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'Development paradigms should match tribal culture'
SITAKANTA MAHAPATRA"S poetry got him the prestigious Jnanpith award for 1993. His poems, written in Oriya, have been translated into many Indian languages as well as English and several other European languages. His poems, which have been acclaimed as hav
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Shifting from hell to hell
EVERY once in a few years, the authorities of the National Capital Territory of Delhi appear to notice with considerable shock that industries in the city may be polluting the city's atmosphere. When
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The value-addition of a clean-up
The Indian government will soo introduce measures to ease annual environmental statements to keep industry"s nose as clean as humanly possible
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All the weight of the world
"CARRYING capacity" is likely to be the Catchphrase of the Year. The term is liberally sprinkled throughout State of the World Report 1994, like some sort of mantra. To illustrate "a breach of
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The liquid heat trap
A giant pond at a dairy in Gujarat is the world's largest water storehouse of the sun's energy and heats about 80,000 litres of water everyday
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Lifestyles in jeopardy
The insensitivity of the state government in implementing the rehabilitation programme will create chaos in the lives of the villagers
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When the birds come home...
A symbiosis between bird and man provides a welcome winter home for the blacknecked crane, rediscovered in India after four decades
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Literacy on the move
A programme to provide education to the nomadic Gujjars is showing encouraging results and also checking their exploitation