2 sides of an unnatural coin
Last fortnight, I wrote of an impending drought. 15 days on, I stand corrected. Now devastating floods are drowning parts of the recently parched country. So much so that Gujarat chief minister
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Will Bhopal victims get their due?
A government is preparing to go into denial
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Where there is some project, they need explosives
Nagpal Tea Stall, 29 Rajpur Road, Dehradun. RAJU sips his tea, eyes glued to the television. Then his eyes light up as he hears talk of Bhutan. He strikes up a conversation with NITIN SETHI
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Federalism or local self rule?
It s a great shame for India s democracy that we have to choose between the two
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Participatory pangs
Local governments and the problem of development programmes
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Give us today our daily threat
Twisha Lahiri works at the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute in Kolkata. For some years now, she has been busy measuring the impact of air pollution on people in Kolkata and Delhi. Her results
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Give MPs money
They will bankrupt development
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Water riddles
I travelled in Kerala last fortnight, seeking answers. I wanted to know what government was doing to meet the drinking water needs of people in this wet drought state. Searching in villages and
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Water is a national resource
GOURISANKAR GHOSH, executive director, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Geneva, Switzerland tells NIDHI JAMWAL that there should be a regulatory framework to manage water resources nationally
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Who s afraid of the Kyoto Protocol?
Russian president Putin?
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Insecure and unenergetic
Whatever the new Union minister of Petroleum Mani Shankar Aiyer may have us believe, oil prices are on a roll and will remain cripplingly high. Oil experts say that, unusually, the surge comes during
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"The market usually decides the fate of slum dwellers"
NIDHI JAMWAL discusses approaches to slum upgradation in developing countries with FAROUK TEBBAL, chief, Shelter Branch, United Nations Human Settlements Programme UN Habitat
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Renewed focus
But the next one year is crucial to renewable energy in India
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It s the market, stupid
Monsanto went mainstream. No, said the market
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Time for the future to win
Elections 2004 are over. Was it a vote for development, social inclusion and justice? Or simply a vote against an incumbent government, flattened by sleazy and slick self promotion? The answer is
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We have completely ignored our biomass sector
A M GOKHALE, secretary. Union Ministry of Non conventional Energy Sources, in conversation with KUSHAL P S YADAV
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Governments should try for 100 per cent pure water
HANS JEURING is the chairperson of Codex Committee on Pesticides Residue CCPR . It is responsible for establishing maximum limits for pesticide residues in food commodities, and comes under the Codex Alimentarius Commission CAC a UN body that sets fo
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Pests behind Codex standards
Swearing by them is nothing more than laziness and deception of regulators
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The curse of plenty
If Kerala can t solve its water problem, who can?
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Size does not matter, but the species-specific habitat needs in planning protected areas
Ana S.L. Rodrigues and Mohamed I Bakarr in an exclusive interview with Nitin Sethi