SUHASINI AYER GUIGAN is an architect concerned with issues of rural development and habitat. Holding a degree in architecture from the Delhi based School of Planning and Architecture, she has spent nearly a decade working on earth construction, and is cur
Our ancients often undertook a barefoot parikrama (travel down the length) of the Narmada river to cleanse themselves of their sins. Few would do this today. Yet, Royina Grewal, inspired by her
UNEP goes Earthwide with an environmental agenda
With mounting domestic and international pressure, Indian tobacco products may soon go up in smoke
CAPART calls for better rural housing and technology in the country
Political chicanery has plugged the revision of the US's Clean Water act
Parthenium, a notorious weed, first sneaked into the country along with wheat grains imported from the us in the early 1950s. It has become a widespread menace ever since. The plant is a rapid coloniser and differs from other weeds in its remarkable adapt
The chief of staff of the International Joint Commission IJC of the United States and Canada, DAVID LaROCHE has 25 years of national and international diplomatic and non governmental campaign experience behind him. He has served 4 United States admini
IS WATER pollution all about throwing rubbish and other unwanted things into the water? No. In fact, a harmless activity like farming could lead to something as insidious as nitrate pollution. In
A COMPREHENSIVE database on legumes, the first of its kind in South Asia is being set up by Sudershan Kumar, a researcher at the National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow. The bean family,
Authorities tread on slippery ground trying to resolve the fuel crisis in Mysore
It would be almost impossible to fool a new electronic signature verification system
To really understand what the chauka system has done to the pastures of the village and its neighbouring areas, it must be kept in mind that the village was declared drought-prone in the 1970s.
From being a romantic quest for treasures and lost civilisations, archaeology has now come down to earth, increasingly associated with reconstructing the apparently esoteric: the thought processes of ancient peoples. But travelling through the maze of tim
MURPHY'S oft-proven first law -- "If something can go wrong, it will" -- is something which appears to have been given the go-by, on their fast-forward to striking paydirt, by the decisionmakers at
The total food grain production reached an all-time high of 186 million tonnes in 1994-95, says the annual report of the Union ministry of agriculture with unprecedented optimism. India's
Women living in a non descript village in Gujarat revive a defunct dairy, earlier run by men. Today, not only do they churn out 100 per cent profits, they also keep the dairy owners happy
IN THE face of mounting public criticism of the Union ministry of environment and forests' draft Forest Bill, environment minister Kamal Nath's quick sidestep to dismiss the document as a "non-paper"
Worried about the state of the world s largest underground source of freshwater, Australia gears up to save the Great Artesian Basin from mismanagement
THIS book throws light on the framework of administration of Bihar's Santhal Parganas district. It to give a comprehensive picture of development efforts in a tribal area. The study begins with the
