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Please include us in your revolution
Barack Obama
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Welcoming a hero
Who embraced common sense and cut agricultural costs MEDIA outfits, like other kinds of institutions, have their ways of identifying themselves with a better world. This is when magazines and newspaper move beyond what they can show through reportage. They launch into a campaign, push into the reader
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A complicated bus-ride
What does Barack Obama
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The first Sinophile
Book>> The Man Who Loved China
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Mirror cracker
Novel>> White Tiger
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Natural injustice
Ignoring ecosystem services will only push us to a faster ecological crisis OF THE different all-India services, the Indian Forest Service is the one that is marginalized. Its resources are less and its power to influence policy even lesser. It is understandable. As the focus shifted from timber to biodiversity conservation, revenue dipped and so did investment in the sector. This myopic
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Puppeteer with no strings
Documentary>> Katputli
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Slow train coming
The real picture of the economy says, be grounded THE aviation industry in India has been hit directly by the rising fuel price and a slump economy. The Times of India reported there were 18.5 per cent fewer flyers this September compared to last September. It is obvious that all the private airlines that mushroomed over the past few years are in the worst kind of turbulence. Middle
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Rift valley
Sikkim
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Bail us out: consume
Earlier this year, I called the Union budget myopic (see Down To Earth, March 31, 2008). Let me reiterate why. The Union budget did not take into account the fact the world was beginning to face new
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The orphan of development
The river is almost totally absent in modern day discourse Barrage, dam, embankment, flood, irrigation have a common thread
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Double trouble in Bundelkhand
The region
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I dont approve the methods of Naxals
Binayak Sen, a paediatrician and vice-president of the People
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Picture imperfect
Unravelling the Gujarat SEZ model Recently the Supreme Court ordered a stay on one of the largest special economic zones (sezs) in the country. The stay order on the Mundra sez in Gujarat
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Mobility empowers
Automobility enervates, because more cars mean more congestion, less mobility IN NOVEMBER 2004, the journal Nature published a research paper tracing how endurance running was linked to the evolution of our species. Two scientists had analyzed hominid fossils, and found endurance running unique to humans among primates as well as most quadruped mammals. They compared hominid fossils with
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Poverty as a posture?
The road to next climate negotiation turns hostile as some developing nations are upgraded RANIDHERA, a remote village in Chhattisgarh made a desperate attempt to join the elite club of Indian villages which gets a few hours of electricity, through the biodiesel route. The effort is limping as the local jatropha plantation did not take off. Thousands of villages are still waiting with cables,
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The naive insider
Book>> The Secret History of the American Empire
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No let-off till zero discharge
A few years ago I wrote about a textile town called Pali, in Rajasthan, which had completely toxified its seasonal river Bandi with industrial discharge. Then, I said the real story was not about