The dumber number game
I met an eminent economist last week. He quoted another eminent economist cum columnist, and asked me if it was true that apples had higher pesticide residues than Coke or Pepsi. Before I could
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Green poetry
On October 15, 2003, the Prime Minister PM attended the first meeting of the new all powerful Indian Wildlife Board. He gave a virtuoso performance. In green poetical terms, he said: We need people centred conservation approaches with the participati
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We need a revolution in global trade
<font class='UCASE'>Walden Bello</font> is professor of Sociology and Public Administration at the University of the Philippines, and executive director of the Bangkok based research and advocacy organisation Focus on the Global South. At the Fifth World
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Kyoto in trouble
Russia may not ratify it. And even if it does, it s not going to do so anytime soon. That was the message, loud and clear, from the Russian president Vladimir Putin and his aides at the recent World Climate Change Conference held in Moscow, Russia, recent
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Reinvent the mobility idea
When I think of the government s newly cleared Auto Fuel Policy, the image of Nero fiddling while Rome burnt comes to mind. The document apparently sets the roadmap to meet clean air targets in
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The Right to recall
Palavika Patel, the former president of Anuppur municipality in Madhya Pradesh, India and Gray Davis, former governor of California, usa are two distinct fall outs of participatory democracy. In 2002, voters of extremely poor Anuppur and in 2003, voters
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No need to be neutral
NEW DELHI, August 28, 2003. At a press conference, Narmada Bachao Andolan NBA leader Medha Patekar said that the NBA would support candidates of like minded organisations in assembly elections to be held in Madhya Pradesh MP . By organisations she
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How not to lose all
The proposed deal in Cancun had to be rejected. What was proposed at the World Trade Organization talks would have been a deadly price for developing countries to pay. Therefore, for once, our
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Stagnation as a culture
WATER is for flowing. When made to stagnate, it buzzes deafeningly of a culture of deliberate ignorance. Look at the misfortune of the people of picturesque western Rajasthan, today also the malaria country. Thirsty desert dwellers will probably never pra
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The state cannot deprive people
WALTER FERNANDES, who has worked extensively for tribes and on tribal issues, talks to SURYA SEN
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Northeast ahoy!
Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has grand plans to illuminate the whole country by now harnessing hydropower from the northeast region. His logic: hydropower projects will usher in local development. But local communities find this logic alienating. T
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Same indifference
Last week, on a visit to the cold desert of Ladakh, I learnt something important. It made me see the ongoing agricultural negotiations at the World Trade Organization s meet in Cancun, Mexico in a
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How development loses meaning
The abstract noun development is firmly a part of the public relations language governments use today. But after a recent ordinance passed by the Orissa government, that levies a forest development tax on minor forest produce, its meaning assumes a di
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The torrid charm of being a UP politician
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has resigned. She s ended, as a newspaper put it, her third honeymoon with the Bharatiya Janata Party, a coalition partner. It is being said the Taj corridor stink is partly responsible for this fresh round of polit
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These are the times of one standard
S P VASIREDDI, Chairperson and Managing Director, Vimta Labs Ltd, Hyderabad was recently in Delhi. NIDHI JAMWAL caught up with the scientist
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Can government be its own watchdog?
The Union government has finally set itself free. No longer will it have to perform the dirty, stressful and thankless task of redressing environmental damage. In a sweeping move, the Union cabinet has given the nod to the ministry of environment and fore
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Forests are the main source of herbs
Meghalaya s abundant flora is the basis of its traditional healthcare system. Now, rapid urbanisation and breakdown of the community structure are disturbing the balance. JOHN F KHARSHIING, Chairperson, Khasi School of Medicine in Shillong, talks to VIB
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The virtual reality of being Indian
The remoteness of 190 villages in Orissa s undivided Koraput district is an elegy on governance. Over five decades, living in islands inside huge reservoirs, some 20,000 people became virtually non existent. Excuses apart there is no provision that tech
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Lava ka Baas: The blame game
When one contests the dominant, it is of utmost importance that all actions and their outcome be above doubt. There isn t the faintest margin of error. There cannot be misfortune. The villages of Alwar district have known this for a long time. For about t
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The colour of chilli
FRANCE may have rejected consignments of chilli powder from India because a banned carcinogenic colouring matter Sudan red 1 was detected. The European Commission EC may have introduced more stringent measures to prevent such goods from entering its