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What does development engineered displacement mean for the other half?
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A question of governance
The Supreme Court request last month to the Bar Council of India, the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and The BarAssociation of Howrah, West Bengal, to devise means nincing
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Time for excitement
TO THE question "What is time?", Saint Augustine of Hippo, the revered 4th century thinker is reported to have remarked, "If no one asks me, I know, but if any person should require me to tell
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Filmed and saved
It was a dream find for a social scientist researching tribal art and culture for the last 15 years. Recently, while working in West Bengal, Ravikent Dwlvedi chanced upon
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Nature and man
Ladakh:The forbidden is was a film itly, the liedl brothers Rejesh and Narash went once again to Ladakh. This time, they filmed the relationship between the nomads of the
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Science, hunger and 200 videotapes
THE first International Video Festival, in India, ivrest "95, held at Thiruvananthapuram (September 8-14), clearly reflected the confusion in the video scenario prevalent in India. The
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CURSOR
Resurrection In medieval times, AI Muizz li Din Allah Street was the heart of Cairo. Today, however, this is like an alley with chaotic traffic and shabby workshops. Suffering from misuse and lack
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Water - It's in our hands
India's Waterbodies all facing a slow death and revealing signs of an equally sick and dying civilisation. I say 'civilisation' and not society because, Indin civilisation always respected its water resources
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Impolitic moves
The recent Cabinet shake up could spell trouble for India on the eco conservation front
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'Developmental aid is part of neocolonialism'
Although RAY WIJEWARDENE, 71, holds degrees in engineering and aeronautics from Cambridge, is a Doctor of Science (Honorls causa) from Sri Lanka"s technological university in Moratuwa and has received numerous awards. including the fellowsh
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A depletion of faith
SEPTEMBER 16 this year, as recommended by the United Nations General Assembly, marks the first International Day for Preservation of the Ozone Layer -- the thin layer of gaseous stratospheric ozone
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Frankestein ad 2000
"TERRAFORMING" is a verb coined roughly two decades ago by a hippiest club of Young American scientists, now braindead - let's call it Science Fiction for Optimists. Unless you know that a
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Freedoms of two different worlds
The Shuria Committee's "revolutionary" suggestions on revertihg tribal areas back to decentralised Gram Raj systems is unlikely to be accepted by the bureaucracy, says RAHUL
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Clues to the way we are
The past couple of decades has seen massive progress in the field of genetics and its role in individual differences and developments. Development and behavioural potential of individuals is
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Gloom and the glamour town
Stereotyping and labelling of things and process is a practice of comfort: it gives the mind the luxury of having little to exercise itself over. This is more evident in the way people normally
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Thorny issue
Leaves and thorns, a feature film by K P Sasi, will be premiered on Doordarshan on October 1, 1995. The film highlights the unequal status of women in a society. It takes off from a
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Old hats
Jain TV has telecast at least 20 times a documentary on the anti-Narmadadam movement, The valley refuses to die. Then, Jeremy Perflot's series, Save the Earth, first shown in 1992,
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An evolving battle
The titans of evolutionary biology are locked in a battle of books. With the progress made in genetic science, scientists are questioning Darwin's theory of natural selection.
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Patently interesting
Those who wanted to know all about patents and trade- marks but didn't know where to find it can now help themselves through books like Patent Wars (Fred