Animal passion
" Four legs good! Two legs bad!" -Animal Farm FOR a certain section of society the world over, George Orwell's satirical statement is a maxim to live by and defend, by fair means or foul. When
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Some knowledge is forever
The validity of traditional ecological practices, in terms of sustainability, has to be examined scientifically
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Victims of progress
What is wrong with progress and development? Can they be the culprits in a process that has wrought gradual marginalisation of the tribal people? Suresh Sharma asserts that the modern world with
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Realising the AIDS risk
SOS: AIDs, a play being staged in Bombay by Spotlight, a group of concerned theatre professionals, gets across the " .. message: AIDS IS not Just a disease that happens to someone else. It can
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Animated awakening
One of the country's best illustrators, Suddhasattwa Basu. has decided to use animation to promote social messages. His 16mm film Rakhee and Mausee is a story that aims to empower women. Basu
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Beckoning birds
All of us at some time or the other ha wondered what it would be like to hear the sounds of our favourite jungle birds sitting at home. But one need not wonder any longer because S Sivaprasad
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Educative entertainment
The New Science Journalists is packed with the kind of science reporting that is intelligent, well-written, entertaining and educative. The editors of the book, like the participants of
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Light and air
Madhu K S of IIT Bombay has designed houses for slum dwellers which integrate lighting and ventilation concepts to provide better living conditions. This got Madhu the first prize in a lighting
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The enemy within
India's environment will be ravaged not just by the likes of Enron, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Hitachi or BMW but, equally and more so, by Rahul Bajaj, Ratan Tata, K K Birla and the petroleum minister who runs
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Power faults
THIS small book is a fairly detailed technoeconomic analysis of the Enron controversy and raises some interesting questions. Apart from the problems of high capital cost and high load factor
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Developing culture
Western models of development have blackballed the role of
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The Ivory Towers of Technology
The 5 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are easily among the most pampered of this country's academic institutions. Used to fund-guzzling in the name of quality technological education, it is
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Villain turns hero
Danny Denzongpa, who acted the villain in countless Hindi films, is playing a hero in real life. He is gathering support for a group called the Concerned Citizens of Sikkim. The group is
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Water way
With the delayed monsoons and the threat of drought looming large over India, K 81kram Singh's first independent feature film, Tarpan, was premiered in July at the most appropriate time.
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Science in fetters
AT A time when Western societies were still in a primitive state of development, the Indus valley civilisation had evolved sophisticated systems for drainage, water supply and urban planning.
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Developmental dilemmas
A TRAGEDY of Indian planners as also of those from some other developing countries is that they have considered agricultural development synonymous with rural development. Development is a
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Trivial truisms
THE title is misleading and merely a guise for the World Bank's preoccupation with its "reforms" or its spearhead Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). The book seems to be a product of the
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No kidding
THIS is a development report based on a major study with intensive field work carried out mainly in the neighbouring Nepal's Sindhuli district - the culmination of 2 years' work. The report
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Fair fables
Fairy tales should be free of bias, believes James Finn Garner. And so he has written a book: Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. He has attempted to rewrite the classics in a form that