Inviting the plague
With all its wealth and affluence, Surat remains the least concerned about health and hygiene
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Damned chicanery
Damn this chicanery. Prime Minister Narasimha Rao has firmly rejected the demand by opponents of the Tehri dam for an independent review of the controversial project. With a media anaesthetised by
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The working environment
There is today a worldwide emphasis on liberalisation and economic reforms coupled with the phenomenon of reduced government spending. Economic reforms can be broken down into two components,
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Societies and sustainability
The two volumes are the result of the combined effort of CUSO***, a Canadian NGO, and environmentalists from Asia. The contributors share their experiences on a wide range of issues ranging from
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Wealthy, but wise?
Despite a supposedly high awareness level on health among the Americans, it now seems as if they are lost when asked to decipher biomedical jargon. A recent study in the Science magazine suggests
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Rooting for trees
The choked trees on Delhi's pavements are being given a chance to once again breathe. Schoolchildren and activists of the Delhi-based NGO Kalpavriksh are pulling tiles off pavements to give space to
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Work shirk
Jeremy Rifkin's forthcoming book, The End of Work, is an effort to find an answer to the question of persistent growing unemployment in the developed countries, despite growing productivity and
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Reflections on images
How does one form ones own identity and how does this identity affect our attitude and the societies attitude towards people? It is this aspect of mind and images that is dealt with in this video. As
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'Development' vultures
"Spring's fragrant gardens wither away where the mediocre rules" Rabindranath Tagore
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"The North has not kept its commitments on technology transfer"
Economist Klaus W Lippold is the chairperson of the Commission for Protection of the Earth's Atmosphere. As a member of the German Parliament since 1983, he is on the committees on Economic and Environmental Affairs, besides being a member of the board of
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Firefighting in forests
Many questions about the theories and practices of the Indian forestry establishment have blazed forth in the wake of the fires that spread throughout the forests of Garhwal and Kumaon last month.
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'Mass housing is a self defeating concept'
SUHASINI AYER GUIGAN is an architect concerned with issues of rural development and habitat. Holding a degree in architecture from the Delhi based School of Planning and Architecture, she has spent nearly a decade working on earth construction, and is cur
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Technology's business
Those tiny, unseeable lifeforms that one so puzzled about till a few decades ago are all set to take noticeable strides into our lives in the future...though they aren't exactly in a hurry. Today,
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Terror in the streets
Eco-terrorists are for real. All over the world the establishment derisively uses the term to describe zealous environmental activists and groups on the fringe. For much of May, however, the term
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The roots of knowledge
Noted agro-economist N S Jodha had said in one of his papers that "in the search for innovativeness in drought management, public policies have bypassed an important source of insight -- the coping
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Walking over water
Our ancients often undertook a barefoot parikrama (travel down the length) of the Narmada river to cleanse themselves of their sins. Few would do this today. Yet, Royina Grewal, inspired by her
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Outbreak
THAT nightmarish faction book, The Hot Zone, told the story of the deadly Ebola virus. Now Outbreak tells us an even more horrifying story of a fictional virus, Motaba. Like Ebola, which dissolves
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Grave trade
Dinosours, like Vincent Van Gogh, found few takers in their lifetime. Now removed from the face of the earth...again, like Van Gogh...they are raking in millions. For the last 2 years, locals in
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Unshaken
The Kobo earthquake in January, which made humpty-dumpties of modern buildings in Japan, still could not shake the unconventional office and residential buildings designed by untutored architect