The call of the wild
The Maldhari community of Saurashtra, reputed to be among the oldest inhabitants of this region, were traditionally livestock breeders, pastoral nomads roaming the wilds in search of the elusive
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The 'earthquake capital' rises again
Killari was once renowned for its champion bulls, till disaster befell it
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Patent prejudice
This verbally loaded anti GATT film is a shrill intellectual harvest that tends to over romanticise the small organic farmer
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Secrets of the water fort
Planners in the ancient city of Dholavira had conceptualised an amazing system of drains, dams and tanks to manage water. To conserve every drop of water, they carefully considered everything, from site selection to extra strong city walls and even air du
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The beauty myth
WHAT on earth is beauty? Recent research shows that people -- Caucasian and Mongoloid alike -- prefer faces with features and shapes far removed from the average (Nature, Vol 368, No 6468). This
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Walled wonder
DHOLAVIRA, the first known Indian city, ranks with Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Ganweriwala (now all in Pakistan) and Rakhigarhi (India) as one of the 5 largest urban centres of the Harappan civilisation. A
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Dam dooms park
A PROPOSED dam in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, has raised a storm of protest, reports Dewi Sartika. The hydro-electric project is to be sited at Lore Lindu National Park, in Donggala Regency, about
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Fishy danger
THE controversial tilapia, a fast-breeding African fish, has been surreptitiously used by a company near Madras for pollution control experiments, despite a ban. Although the Union department of
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The hidden reservoir
SATELLITE imagery suggests that there should be a large reservoir -- most probably an artificial one -- buried southwest of Dholavira. One of the best cultivated fields in the locality is contiguous
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Paper peril
THE expansion plans of Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Paper Ltd (TNPL), funded by the World Bank (WB) to the tune of $75 million, has rung alarm bells in environmental quarters. J Paul Bhaskar, chairperson
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The fruits of confusion
An Australian shrub has leaves that mimic its fruit to fool the voracious white tailed black cockatoo
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Last chance for the big cat
Several countries are getting tough with tiger poachers and traders in what may be the final attempt to save the magnificent beast:
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Department in the dock
THE 7th Parliamentary committee report on the working of the department of ocean development (DOD) has found that the department "is not geared up to meet the challenges of our times" and has
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Condom dumping
KOREAN condoms, preferred by the World Health Organisation over the Indian Nirodh, have turned out to be too big to be of any use in the country. The Korean condoms, larger by 3 cm and wider by 1 cm
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Uncle Sam
ALTHOUGH many believe that he was shortchanged by the mandarins of the Indian technological and scientific establishment, Sam Pitroda still retains a concern for Indian S&T. He was at his avuncular
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Old is gold
AN ANCIENT Egyptian practice of divining a woman's pregnancy by treating wheat seeds with her urine, say scientists, could be used as an efficient, economical pregnancy test for cows. The currently
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No greenhorns here...
...in efforts at getting the environmental message across in moving images
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Building on wrong premises
The plan to rehabilitate the victims of the devastating earthquake that shook Latur last year ignores the needs of the villagers and introduces alien construction techniques
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The gassing of a village
A petroleum product factory continues to chug out its poison, despite a decade of protests and official ire
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'Deep sea fishing in India is already a flop'
THOMAS KOCHERY was one of the first persons in India to have taken up the issue of unsustainable exploitation of marine resources and its impact on traditional fishing communities. He rose to national prominence during the 1983 fishworkers" strike in Kera