The call of the wild
The Maldhari community of Saurashtra, reputed to be among the oldest inhabitants of this region, were traditionally livestock breeders, pastoral nomads roaming the wilds in search of the elusive
Search Results
-
-
Building on wrong premises
The plan to rehabilitate the victims of the devastating earthquake that shook Latur last year ignores the needs of the villagers and introduces alien construction techniques
-
Look what our neighbour is up to!
Myanmar has not sqandered its natural resources in an attempt to ape the West
-
Gaps in GAP
The Ganga Action Plan has many flaws, but work on cleaning the river should continue
-
Food for thought
Vitamin B12 andfolic acid promise a worldfi ee of Alzheimer's disease
-
Save the killers
Even the nasty little bugs are worth conserving
-
The joke's on the panchayat
The recent <i>panchayat</i> elections in Madhya Pradesh was the latest edition of the mock ritual of decentralisation
-
Keep your waste
A ban has been imposed on the export of hazardous waste despite strong Northern resistance
-
Only ripples
The latest international meet on water nearly drowned in platitudes
-
Qualitywise, India is miles ahead
The Indian entries in a recent development video competition held by the British Council, far outpaced their competitors in production quality, pace and purposefulness.
-
Hype about salt
To eat or not to eat is not the question, says a critic of 'low salt' theory
-
Countdown to safety
In the face of mounting criticism at home and abroad, Japan's fast breeder reactor programme is on the mat
-
The closing of the gates
A controversy boiled over when the construction sluices were closed abruptly and affected scores of people
-
No milking the super cows
The European Community has opposed injecting cows with the controversial hormone bovine somatrophin to boost milk production
-
Working magic
IN HER short but bitingly relevant play, Mridula Garg places the exploitation of children in the carpet industry in an equally horrific context of deforestation, outmigration and rural poverty --
-
Elite in an ivory tower
Just imagine India trying to impose trade sanctions against the <font class='UCASE'>US</font> for putting out too much carbon dioxide which can affect India s monsoon
-
Fighting "green imperialism"
India and Brazil strongly protested the North's attempts to link environment with trade
-
Too much protest, too little practice
The October edition of Newstrack had a livelier than usual Crosstalk, which featured doctors furious at being brought under the purview of the Consumer Protection Act.
-
Mean streets
GRUESOME highway accidents are so common in India that they are routinely relegated to the inside pages of newspapers. But the month of March took, as it were, the cake (see pages 18-19): in the
-
NGOs left holding the baby
The state is slowly withdrawing from the welfare sector leaving voluntary organisations in a quandary