MARRAKECH: As issue of inadequate financial support from rich nations continued to dominate discourse of heads of state\government and ministers during high-level segment of the UN climate change conference,
A passionate appeal to emulate Mahatma Gandhi’s life and thoughts in the global fight against climate change marked the beginning of the ministerial segment of the Kigali meeting of the Montreal Protocol
Prime Minister Modi’s decision to ratify the Paris climate deal on October 2 was a “well considered and pre-planned decision,” Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Anil Dave told
Modern medicine has created a dichotomy: modern medicine on the one hand, and alternative systems on the other. This paper views this dichotomy and liminality in the context of Gandhi's vision of health.
Padmabhooshan Shri. Anil Agarwal, the founder of Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi and Editor of Down to Earth, who died on January 2, 2002, was a visionary leader who fought till his death
The Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan is gathering momentum in the schools and elsewhere in the district. The special drive for the cleanliness started on Gandhi Jayanti, Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, is continuing
The Chhattisgarh Government is going to organise a series of programmes for creating awareness among the people regarding the importance of cleanliness. The programmes would start with sanitation pledge
Pledging to construct 1.21 crore toilets over the next five years covering all households in Bihar, the State Government on Wednesday vowed to end the practice of defecation in open places by 2019 as a
The President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented the Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2013 to noted environmentalist leader of Chipko movement and Gandhian from Uttarakhand, Chandi Prasad Bhatt, at the
Planting saplings grafted from twins detached from a Malgoa mango tree planted by Gandhiji at Payyannur nearly eight decades ago is a novel way of celebrating Gandhi Jayanthi. The Kannur-based Kerala Initiative to Save Agriculture and Nature (KISAN) has 100 grafts in its possession now to be distributed among various institutions for planting on October 2.
An extract from an interview with Mahatma Gandhi.
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Pursuing its social welfare agenda with a renewed vigour, UPA-II is all set to change the nomenclature of its flagship National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). To be called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, an amendment in the law is likely to be introduced during the coming Winter Session of Parliament.
Bidi is a leaf-rolled cigarette made of coarse, uncured tobacco, tied with a string at one end. Bidis (beedis or biris) dominate the smoking market of India
<p>Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is more than a political text. It is an ontological drama staged by Gandhi, reflected in his treatises against "modern civilisation", and his critique of "modernity".</p> <p> </p>
<p>Gandhi has legions of admirers, but he has also been the target of severe, even virulent, criticism from numerous perspectives. Though Gandhi still commands veneration from many, he is also someone everyone loves to hate.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.epw.in/journal/2008/40/special-articles/gandhi-everyone-loves-hate.html" target="_blank">Original Source</a></strong></p>
<font class="UCASE"><b>Documents of the Dandi March</b></font>
THE enormous changes taking place across the globe in the field of science are bound to unleash new forms of violating ordinary order of life. This is perhaps already very much obvious in all walks
<p>Environmentalist Anil Agarwal, founder of CSE (Centre for Science and Environment), booming with concern, fighting to strike a balance between environment and development.</p> <p><span style="color:#ff0000;">"A
As a ten-year old child, Dhanua of Koylala was taken to the johad to obtain the blessing of the residing deity. The water in the johad was still and blue. When he got married at the age of 20, he
Development policies based on Gandhian philosophy, rather than consumerism, are the best bet for tackling current environmental and development problems
