Getting it all wrong
All good governance systems teach us that development efforts should be cost effective and include peoples' involvement, stakeholder participation and transparency
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Call of the wild
The magic wand of wildlife research is literally bringing to life that sleeping beauty called extinct biodiversity the supposedly disappeared species of yore
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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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Greek tragedy on the rails
THROUGHOUT the developed world today, there is a determined effort to clean up the air, and railways are being pushed as the most convenient, eco-friendly, cheap, fast and comfortable mode of
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Tribal treasure
A new serial on India's tribal heritage will soon hit Doordarshan's Channel 3. Bappa Roy, recipient of three President's awards for his anthropological and ethnographic films, is the
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Under siege
The impasse in Manipur, which represents the festering unrest in the entire Northeast, needs a caring administrative policy, not bullets and raids
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Panda protection
Recently a project has been initiated by the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park situated in Darjeeling, in the state of West Bengal, to protect red pandas from extinction.
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Mean model
The modalities of the model much acclaimed Kerala Model cannot survive long on self denial
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People's trees
When the earth gave birth to this free, There came no sound, A green shoot thrust In silence from the ground. Our births don't come so Quiet
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How to become a natural being
INTERCONNECTED, compassionate, vulnerable: these are some of the words that convey people's feelings about their relationship with the earth. Environmentalism is not just a set of beliefs,
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Shamans. mystics and doctors
Controlled scientific studies have shown that techniques like meditation can help cure depression, anxiety, diabetes, ulcers, asthma, cardiac pain and alcoholism
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Winding roads to welfare
Humans just do not live by bread alone. But to climb the steps leading to total welfare, somewhere that equilibrium between work and consumption has to be achieved
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"Nature is not loved in India"
HARISH GAONKAR took his childhood passion for butterflies seriously enough to carve out an illustrious career in lepidopterology for himself. A polyglot, Gaonkar prefers illustrating his own work His interests seem to reflect a rare blend ofscien
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Cauvery: manage demand, not supply
OCCAMISM and chicanery marked the latest in the annual ritual of the Cauvery dispute, with the Prime Minister, P V Narasimha Rao, ordering Karnataka to release six thousand million cubic feet
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"Desertification is a global problem"
Ambassador BO KJELLEN has seen it all, from diplomacy and development to even sports. A "family man", as he describes himself, addicted to music and badminton, the 62 year old Swede began his career with the foreign ministry and has thereafter re
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Tribals sow, MNCs reap
EIGHTY per cent of the world's population depends on indigenous knowledge to meet their medicinal needs, and at least half rely on indigenous knowledge and crops for food supplies, according to a
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Tackling The MNC Menace
TO USHER in new technology and additional investment, and promote exports, Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) is advocated by several experts. All DFI'S opponents argue that multinational companies
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Back To Swadeshi
BASICALLY the term sivadcshi covers all aspects of national development - social, political, cultural, economic, international, science and technology and education. Developmental models based