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The <i>karez</i> system could solve the country's water problems
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THE ENEMY OF NATURE: THE END OF CAPITALISM OR THE END OF THE WORLD? Joel Kovel . Published by Zed Books . 2002 . Price: not stated An average Indian radical
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Green charade
US 'inside player' environmental groups slip into oblivion
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Rivers of dispute
Quiet flow the rivers as politics make their waters murky
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Corporate US
US double standards on human rights smacks of global hypocrisy
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Open letter to Prime Minister Vajpayee
Dear Mr Vajpayee, A few months ago you spoke passionately about the need to involve local communities in water management. Releasing the national water policy document, you said harnessing every
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Between the lines
<font class='UCASE'>lpg</font>, touted as the cleanest fuel option, is responsible for the release of high levels of nitrogen oxides and suspended particulate matter
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Chulhas vs LPG: Which is the cleaner fuel?
Five experts debate the economics, science, efficiency and effects on women s health
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Fashion trends dictate the demand for herbs
<b>Rakesh Aggarwal</b>, proprietor of the National Herbs Company, explains the pulse of the medicinal plants market to <b>Vibha Varshney</b>
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Cloud over the haze
UNEP rushes in where fools fear to tread. Cheap publicity or bad politics?
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Displacing a livelihood
How do we rehabilitate development project oustees?
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I was surprised at the sweep of the judgment
<font class=UCASE>T N GODAVARMAN THIRUMULPAD</font> filed a writ petition in 1995, which led the Supreme Court to ban all kinds of felling in any state without prior permission from the Union government. He lives a life away from the spotlight today, as
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Solutions unbound
Besides being largely impractical, the land for land approach to the rehabilitation debate is patronising, to say the least
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Law is the answer
Livelihood and the right to continue a way of life is as much a part of rehabilitation and resettlement as land or cash compensation
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Stuck with symbolism
Do the Indian leaders know just what they are putting their signatures to?
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Science in our daily lives
Over a year ago, Anil Agarwal wrote in this column that science is a political orphan. He was discussing how even as we remain bombastic about our prowess in science, there is so little science in
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The Bulldozer in the Countryside
A book by Adam Rome
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Travails of democracy
Democracy must widen to cover international politics and institutions
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Tradition incorporated
Patents are welcome only if the traditional rights of people are protected
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The politics of empty words
The new buzzword in the climate research circles is vulnerability and adaptation. Just like most of the climate discussion the words have become so dense, that their meaning is lost on most, except