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The free software movement needs both bark and byte
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The free software movement needs both bark and byte
14/12/2002
Governments are duty bound to promote open source software
14/12/2002
Interlink rivers and get delinked from true water management
14/12/2002
Four oil companies Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Reliance Industries have signed a memorandum with industry and scientific institutions
Environmentalism offers a rich analogy for the politics of copyright on the Internet
Sustainable use of wildlife comes to the fore; India remains backward
Meet two pioneering grassroots leaders nominated for the Equator Initiative Awards
How can CDM resolve the conflict between developed and developing country interests?
After Bt cotton, it s now GM mustard; where is our scientific community?
When hunger stalks, politics and bureaucracy only bring mayhem
29/11/2002
I would love to write a handbook on the Indian bureaucracy. But for now let me focus on a favourite, the yes minister technique. Do nothing, and then when pushed, unleash chaos. Nothing succeeds as
Rainfall is scarce, groundwater levels have fallen; what exactly is happening in Rajasthan?
AMERICAN HEAT . By Donald A Brown . First edition . Published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc. . Maryland . USA . 2002 Two friends - for security reasons, we call them F1 and F2 - met
Is industry hijacking the law to undermine communities rights to water?
RAJIV BHARTARI, a LEAD Leadership for Environment and Development fellow, is building a framework for ecotourism in Uttaranchal. He tells NITIN SETHI how ecotourism could reconcile the demands of development and conservation
29/11/2002
The Centre s report card has little to show beyond an unfinished agenda
I remember how I first learnt about global warming. It was in the late 1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal and I were searching for policies and practices to regenerate wasted common lands. We quickly
Should local communities pay for Western notions of global benefit ?
In a world where corporate gains feed on hunger and poverty, could food be a human right?
14/11/2002
AJAY S RAWAT spent six months in the Indo Nepal terais to trace the methods of timber smugglers