Complex perplexes
How did the primordial soup of amino acids and other molecules organise themselves into a living cell? How do galaxies and other structures form when there is an inexorable tendency towards
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The new wave
THE '80s and '90s have witnessed the globalisation and opening up of the Indian economy. The megacities of India have now become the' stage for the new political. and socio-economic
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There's something rotten...
Despite judicial activism in the environmental field, despite the failure of the regulatory system, the courts have rarely awarded compensation to the victims
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Feathers, nails, bones and blood!
Time has come for tribal medication to be revalidated
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Thailand's sorrow
Swamped by a surge in tourist population, Thailand has but to turn towards alternative tourism
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Puppets to the aid
A three-day training-cum- workshop for disseminating information on AIDS control was organised by Disha, an NGC, at the New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The aim was
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What they say, what they mean...
Today's scientist is no longer the absent minded cosmic thinker, the entity has emerged as a brash species that believes in elbowing its way up
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Gateway to success
THE mantra which turned a two-man shoestring-budget operation called Microsoft Corporation into a l7,000- employee-strong global giant, whose sales touch US $6 billion a year, is all there for
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People or bust
Anthropologists are realising that the rate of disappearance of cultures has become a serious problem, and are thus taking up activist roles
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No more in the shadows
A new and unique performing art called hand shadowgraphy is being popularised by Amar and Sabyasachi Sen. The art form is enacted by estures candlelight and g come to life as fingers play up
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The great American whims
The murky wrangle between environmental zeroes and heroes of the 104th Congress in the US becomes evident
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"We are dealing with attitudes"
The National Tree Growers Cooperative Federation Limited is an organisation devoted to the restoration and protection of the native ecology of the country. The organisation's managing director, VK MISRA, spoke to RAJAT BANERJI about this cooperative m
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What is to be done
AS THE general elections approach, a number of independent initiatives to influence the mainstream political process are coming up. The overriding concern of most of these initiatives by the non
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Games genes play
The 'selfish gene' is the one which loses in the long run and in this game, the meek survives
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Tele talk
The first ever weekly telemagazine on the subject of Ayurveda will be beamed on Doordarshan very shortly. The magazine has been named Amrit Pravah. Its production is being managed by Virendra
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The minister and the menace
A recent workshop on people's management of the Rajaji National Park brought out in full fury the debate whether the local communities are wiser managers of forests or the menace threatening them. While the environment and forests minister, RAJESH PILOT,
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Tent talents
Artistic tents, recreated by Clarissa Mitchell -a designer -capture the exotic and practical aspects of a nomadic tradition and provide a new expression to Rajasthani skill. Rajasthan, says
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Piloting disaster
I WOULD like to strongly denounce the message sent by Rajesh Pilot to this august assembly to discuss people's management of the Riljaji National Park by the Van Gujjars. It appears from his message