Wild at home
Private farms, cattle ranches and indigenous people help in managing wild animals, thereby giving a fillip to Zimbabwe s wildlife conservation policy
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Haul your own garbage
Vadodara's residents show that handling garbage hands on is the best way to beat municipal overload
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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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A case of computer breakdown?
IF ONE were to pick a single product to represent the tremendous technological progress in the second half of this century, it would certainly be the computer. In few fields has progress been so
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Fall from grace
From archangels to archfiends the reputation of IAS officers has certainly nosedived. Anil Agarwal, director, Centre for Science and Environment, and N C Saxena, director, Lai Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussorie, share their v
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Genesis of a crisis
WHEN Meghnaad, brother of King Ravana of Lanka, grievously injured Lakshman, brother of Lord Rama, Hanuman was sent to Gandhamardan Parvat to fetch the Mritasanjeevani Sudha, a life-saving herb.
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Dams, lies and red tape
Pro and anti dam activists join hands to establish an independent body for reviewing large projects
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The lesson from Bangladesh
When the cyclone slammed into Bangladesh on April 29 earlier this year, the anxiety in many quarters of the world was especially heightened in anticipation of huge fatalities. Exactly to the day 3
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Chipko: Environmentalism of the poor
WHENEVER a dictionary of green terms is written, even if it is in English, it will contain at least one Hindi word. And that word is Chipko. The idea that people are prepared to hug trees to save
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Ethics dumped
The world over, the pockets where the poor live are used as environmental dumps. PAUL WAPNER debates the environmental ethics of International politics
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No state support to Zimbabwe's A2 farmers
Harare has announced it will discontinue support to new black commercial farmers when the next summer season commences. The decision comes in the face of an economic meltdown. According to a
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Burnt out
Caught in a paradoxical situation, Hotel Maurya Sheraton retracts its plan of installing a pyrolator
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Parched Punjab
India s most agriculturally prosperous state, Punjab, is staring at an impending groundwater crisis. Over extraction of groundwater and faulty cropping practices could affect India s foodgrain production
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Crossing the rainbow
With the coming of the Rajiv Gandhi Mission on Watershed Development, a major change took place in the degraded wasteland that was Jhabua
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Dolphin remains
Gangetic dolphins may get a new lease of life with Uttar Pradesh government's decision to save the river dolphins
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The house that Digvijay built
Governments and the masses have very rarely worked together successfully in modern India. In Madhya Pradesh, chief minister Digvijay Singh has managed to do that. The state government's watershed management programme in the district of Jhabua has m
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Evaporating resources
The picture that emerges in this water rich country is indeed frightening. And even more worrisome is that nobody is doing anything about it
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In full gear
What worries me more than the actual problem of vehicular pollution is that nobody is looking at it from a national perspective
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Recipe for long life
If you want to live longer, you may have to go hungry
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Obama’s grand climate plan doesn’t add up
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