A cocktail of chemicals
...that"s what New Bombay residents seem to be consuming daily, with thousands of chemical industries and lakhs of vehicles burping out pollutants and snuffing out a dream
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Who's afraid of Dai Qing?
THE Chinese government, on the face of it: the saga of a mere mortal whose ideas on democracy and free speech exposed a state at its Draconian best begins on February 28, 1989. A book, condemning
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Exhausting concerns
The automobile industry is worried about a proposed legislation that may soon make it mandatory for manufacturers to fit vehicles with catalytic convertors to control pollution levels
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The way of all waste
Environmentalists and developingcountries managed to stave off an attempt to sabotage the Basel Ban on international trade in hazardous substances at the fourth Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention
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The sweet scent of hard cash
Several Indian firms, eyeing easy profits, are cultivating exotic varieties of flowers for the Dutch market but paying little heed to ecological consequences
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The biotech brigands
Developed nations are interpreting key clauses of the biodiversity treaty with the aim of protecting their own biotechnology industries from potential flak
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Lifted into prosperity
Community lift irrigation management systems have ushered in a new era in Shankerpura
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The fruits of water
Orchards in Vansda transform distant dream into reality as people unite to store and use the water that would usually run off
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GUJARAT: Turning a blind eye
Industrial estates are proliferating in Gujarat and state pollution control officials admit that waste disposal has not been a priority consideration for any of them. The Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Surat
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Information highway: questions of powerdrive
INFORMATION is power. "Information highways" serve as economic channels for world trade now, just as the sealanes, railways and roads were the foundation of trade and commerce in times past. Small
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Not so bitter
Fears of neem patenting by Western MNCs are blown out of proportion
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Banking on thrift and credit
Cooperative banks initiated with assistance from an NGO in the Capital have plucked slumdwellers out of the red
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'Development paradigms should match tribal culture'
SITAKANTA MAHAPATRA"S poetry got him the prestigious Jnanpith award for 1993. His poems, written in Oriya, have been translated into many Indian languages as well as English and several other European languages. His poems, which have been acclaimed as hav
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Building up a dangerous trend
JUST 55 seconds in duration, it left 1,000 people dead. The earthquake, measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, which devastated the hills of Uttarkashi, Tehri Garhwal and Chamoli districts in UP last October, also left 20 per cent of the houses in the region totally destroyed or severely damaged. <br>
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What price the constitution?
Breakthroughs in genetic engineering have led to questions on the ethics of such experiments. Should scientists alone be steering the decision making process?
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Mainstream on the cutting edge
The environmental movement in the USA began with the bleeding heart propagation of a pastoral ideal: the national parks. The founders of the Sierra Club were all passionate woodsmen first and philanthropes later
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'Nature's molecules are complex; the synthetic chemist can hardly make them'
Work has started on a gigantic database of medicinal and aromatic plants from knowledge handed down through tradition. The Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT), a Bangalore-base NGO, is busy building a countrywide network of tr
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Filling in the "big picture"
DEVELOPMENT, environment and science could be said to be the troika driving modern progress. But while the United Nations has been offering the "big picture" on the first two through its annual
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The drowning of a city
There are both in Delhi criminal waste, unendurable want. And in this city of verdant veneers, nowhere does the callous politics of dispossession show its slip more than in the titanic economics of water. Water led the way to the formation of cities; th
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The seeds of traditional wisdom
A farmer in northern India has adopted agricultural practices that are attuned and not disruptive to the rural environment. Moreover, he has successfully reaped profits