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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Exploiting earthworms for fertilisers
Vermicampost worm excreta is emerging as a feasible substitute for chemical fertilisers
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'India is close to aquaculture disaster'
JOHN KURIEN, a faculty member at Thiruvananthapuram's Centre For Development Studies, which devotes itself to developing linkages between research and action, finds teaching the economics of fisheries to researchers as important as teaching economics t
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The great water rip off
URBAN India faces a water crisis Madras to Jodhpur, most cities are already facing the crippling effects of scarcity. There is hardly any city in India that canboast of a 24-hour water supply. But
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Killed by indifference
When two young people die in a highway accident, is it destiny or a callous and indifferent administration?
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Saved from the axe
Spirited village women in Himachal Pradesh save a clump of deodar trees from being chopped by mercenary woodcutters.
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The sun in your kitchen
Virtually inexhaustible solar energy could be the cheapest cooking fuel the world has known
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The fly that got away
The American serpentine leaf miner that infiltrated into India about two years ago is destroying agricultural crops
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Sign language from outer space
THE TITLE reminds you of the Edwardian English poet, Walter De La Mare's The Listeners: "'Is there anybody there,' said the traveller?" While De La Mare's traveller rode through time seeking
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Value addition
A Pune teacher develops a calculator made out of cardboard for as little as Rs 15, which can even handle mindbending logarithms.
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Trials by violation
MEDICAL research aims at producing technologies for the human good. But in pursuit of this objective, should we allow medical research to violate basic human rights? The violence of a male-dominated