A village betrayed
The people of Salehpur get a raw deal from the forest department of Haryana in return for the services rendered by them
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The State s non bureaucratic role of encouraging the people
Indian rulers rarely built water harvesting structures themselves. They, however, encouraged their subjects to build them through fiscal incentives. A revival is possible today only if India returns to a community based system of natural resource managem
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Kuttanad: a case in point
Kuttanad in Malayalam means 'small town'. But the ecological devastation which human hands have wrought here is in no way small or insignificant
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King without a jungle
The sandalwood forests are gone. Now an ageing Veerappan looks for greener pastures
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The unsilenced valley
The Bhils of Madhya Pradesh are armed with a simple, effective and practical system of irrigation to mend the ruin inflicted by the state's impractical and rudderless schemes
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"It is wiser for industry to invest in pollution control"
He was the archetypical activist bureaucrat. For A N YELLAPPA REDDY, former special secretary to the government of Karnataka's department of environment and ecology, the issues were real and live. He would not let avaricious politicians and big busine
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How green were the forests...
The van panchayats of the Uttar Pradesh hills were created to restore the vital link between villagers and their forests. Today, they are prime takeover targets of the forest and revenue departments, whose main aim is to exploit the forests. KOSHY CHERAIL
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Ungreening the revolution
A programme initiated with much drum beating, the green revolution has not just backfired but even eroded traditional systems of farming. Farmers from Madhya Pradesh are trying hard to recover from its disastrous effects
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Arrange again
What water managers know could rejuvenate the law on resolving water related conflicts
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City of thirst
Madras is a chronically water-starved metropolis, and it provides invaluable insights into how integrated water management could be the last life-saver
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Plant prospects
The stubborn juliflora, which grows mostly in drylands and wastelands, is now invading arable areas. One still speculates about the repercussions
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Plagued by rats
In the months of August and September 1994, panic gripped the country as news of the plague epidemic in Surat spread. Few had cared to ponder over the possibility that the Latur earthquake would have a deadly sequel. That the rodent borne disease w
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Water - It's in our hands
India's Waterbodies all facing a slow death and revealing signs of an equally sick and dying civilisation. I say 'civilisation' and not society because, Indin civilisation always respected its water resources
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The central problem
Callous unconcern, pollution, encroachment and politics is finishing off the lakes in Bhopal and Indore
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Catching viruses
Brand new infectious maladies such as Jacobson's disease have begun to plague the world, despite better sanitation and medication in developed countries
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Sukhomajri at the crossroads
The forest department intervenes to spoil a successful conservation programme of a Haryana village. An assement by Richard Mahapatra
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Kerala brick industry taking over rice fields
The fast expanding brick industry in Kerala is causing irreversible damage to paddy fields in a state that is already beset by an acute rice shortage.
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Hazy picture
The agriculture ministry and the Indian Meteorological Department have given contradictory statements on how crops have failed in the past year
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Lifted into prosperity
Community lift irrigation management systems have ushered in a new era in Shankerpura
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The spirit of water
Mahadapur goes green the 'group irrigation management' way