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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Lichens are reliable monitors of air pollution
Indian scientists have classified levels of atmospheric pollution using lichens.
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Lichens as pollution monitors
Lichens as pollution monitors Pollution Zone I Pollution Zone II Pollution Zone II Pollution Zone II Lecidea
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Bringing the basics to a neglected slum
An NGO is helping residents of a Kanpur slum to get amenities like drinking water, latrines and medical care
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Requiem for wasteland development
THINGS could not have turned out more badly in the fight over the fate of the wastelands board. Last fortnight's cabinet notification lays to rest the uncertainty
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Purifying the Ganga
"The story of the Ganges, from her source to the sea, from old times to new, is the story of India"s civilisation ..." - Jawaharlal Nehru
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United, these survive, save and survive
A voluntary organisation is transforming the lifestyles of villagers by involving women in collective work. The men are also following suit, but not so successfully
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The political economy of defecation
IN MANY ways, the Ganga Action Programme is a very ambitious scheme. It aims to clean up one of the world"s longest rivers -- using sophisticated and expensive technologies. But the project
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Unconventional approach to AIDS control
Voluntary groups in Madras are taking up the onus of increasing AIDS awareness among various groups including students, blue collar workers and truck drivers
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Exhaustive study of Munda tribal society
THE BOOK under review is an exhaustive, intensely researched, painstaking study of the social organisation of the Munda of Central India. This area is not the same as the historical or the political
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When fathers harass their sons
Among white fronted bee eaters, a bird species found abundantly in east and central Africa, fathers torment their sons and physically prevent them from breeding. The sons in time abandon efforts family life and return to the parental nest as helpers