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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Mud housing is the key
Mud"s low cost and malleability makes it an ideal building material. But its use can be popularised only if such drawbacks as its susceptibility to moisture is overcome and misconceptions about mud housing are cleared.
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The value of traditional solutions
"A plant in the backyard has no value," says an Indian proverb. This attitude, which has been the bane of Indian society -- and that of the nations of the South -- repeatedly tends to overlook the
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Vedic substitute for a modern calculator
HOW MUCH is 87265 multiplied by 32117? In our familiar method of multiplication, it will take five steps of multiplication and one step of addition to obtain the answer, apart from
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Children teach elders with play on street
Against the opulent backdrop of the WHO building in the Capital, children of the Anna Nagar slum act out on the street their problems and the solutions.
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Working wonders with neem
There has recently been a flurry of international activity centred around the versatile neem.
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Life beyond the pale
IT WAS on the day following Independence Day this year that Chuni Kotal, the first woman graduate from the Lodha Sabar community of West Bengal, who was working for a master's degree in
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Common sense about common salt
In earlier times, a mixture of salt, herbs and spices or a simple dose of salt by itself was considered a prime cure for a range of illnesses.
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A promising contraceptive
Modern science now confirms what was well known in India since Vedic times neem oil is an effective birth control agent.
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Technology and the public sector
A MAJOR preoccupation of developing countries that have undergone the colonial experience is to avoid, at any cost, the substitution of political colonialism with economic colonialism. An important