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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Planters devils?
The debate over captive plantations for the paper industry rages like a prairie fire
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Round and round we go
The concept of Chakriya Vikas Pranali (CVP) can roughly be translated into English as "Cyclical System of Development". As with all translations, it is a poor copy of the original meaning. The
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All for a home
A MERE mention of the Koel Karo project incites angry outbursts from the tribals of Chotanagpur region. Men, women and children together lambast the project. Demonstrations, speeches and
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Piloting disaster
I WOULD like to strongly denounce the message sent by Rajesh Pilot to this august assembly to discuss people's management of the Riljaji National Park by the Van Gujjars. It appears from his message
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THE GREEN AGENDA
The key points adopted by Alliance 90 to address certain vital issues
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People's risk
Community based risk assessment and abatement is a must in the age of expanding business opportunities
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'Orangi is not unique, I am'
Akhtar Hameed Khan is one of Asia's foremost social organisers. The Orangi Pilot Proiect, Karachi's outstanding slum development programme, testifies to his innovative approach in empowering ordinary people to transform their environment
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Living problems
GARBAGE strewn all around... green pastures for flies ... long queues with containers at the tubewells --- and a sea of humanity crawling out of shanties to go about their daily routines. This
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Solar enticement
Promoting the cause of solar power against conventional power is the latest Swiss initiative
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"Some power is better than none"
With the country, reeling under an intensifying power crunch, and various authorities only predicting a darker future, the search for alternative energy sources becomes that much more important. N B AMIN, chairperson of the Gujarat based Sardar Pate
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Bad science bogey
Lobbies use the old trick
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Watershed deals
Indo Bangladesh water talks seem to have taken a positive turn while critics still consider the issue a washed out case
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Super chip
Human work done over 57,000 years would be accomplished in one second flat by a wonder computer developed by the US
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Pouring prosperity
The micro watershed development project in Maharashtra has put a stop to what was earlier an annual ritual of deserting the drought prone villages of Marathwada by their residents
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"Tribals conserve to survive"
A scion of one of Ranchi's Bihar royal families, K S SINGH retired #s the director general of the Anthropological Survey of India ASI . He spoke to AMIT MITRA about the hallmark of his illustrious career The People of India Project a produc
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Protecting hands
An educational charity aims to light up the life of Black schoolchildren by imparting them technical knowledge
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Criminal waste
Reduced to filthy, foul smelling cesspools, with mosquito larvae arawing their lazy, intricate patterns on the green surfaces, the same takes and tanks in urban areas draw a passerby's game is when purple hyacinths bloom and disguise their filth. O
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Death in the pit
Late in the night of September 26, water from the Katri nullah (canal), flowing past the Jharia coal fields, Dhanbad, breached an embankment I entered 2 mines, after it had inun a nearby
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'We see ourselves as a bridge between the EU and the US'
From climate change to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the UK is at the centre of intense global debate on these issues. Clifford Polycarp and TV Jayan spoke with Elliot Morley, UK"s minister of state for environment and agri-environment, during hi