News media are major channels for the transmission of information to the public and deliver news about the latest developments regarding health issues such as climate change. How the media frame such information may enhance public understanding and enable appropriate responses by individuals and communities. This study follows up on …
AT ITS inception in the 1830s, the photograph was regarded "the pencil of nature'. Photographic images were perceived as direct and unmediated transcriptions of reality. Those were the halcyon days of positivism
• A British television channel has been criticised as "irresponsible' for making a drama in which US President George Bush is assassinated. Death of a President, on More4, uses actors and computer effects to portray the president being shot dead during an anti-war rally in Chicago in 2007. The makers …
the day after Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss told Parliament that the Centre for Science and Environment's (cse's) exhaustive study on carbonated beverages was "inconclusive', the Delhi edition of the Hindustan Times carried the story as its lead story on page one. As part of the lead package, the newspaper …
• Rock musician Thom Yorke says that he turned down a meeting with UK prime minister Tony Blair to discuss climate change. The singer was asked to visit Downing Street by campaigners last September, in his role as ambassador for environmental group Friends of the Earth. But he dismissed Blair …
in 1995, a slightly nervous student at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi asked his teacher the bare essentials of doing well in academics. The slightly bemused professor generously jotted a down a reading list; besides an entity called Economic and Political Weekly (epw) he wrote: …
www.rabble.ca Rabble, babble. While these two perfectly rhyming words may sound trivial and informal, the Canadian website under review actually uses them as the name for two sections that are anything but non-serious. This news portal identifies itself as "News for the Rest of Us.' "They' being those up there, …
It is clear to those who live, or even happen to visit Delhi, that the problem of pollution is extreme in this city. It needs immediate and drastic action so that the solutions can keep pace with increasing emissions from the ever-increasing fleet of vehicles. It has been almost two …
Keen to fight the bad press they're getting in Europe for alleged environmental and labour abuses, Costa Rican banana-growers recently convinced world industry representatives to push the United Nations for a comparative study of plantation conditions in all banana-exporting countries. They're confident that Costa Rica will score high in the …
A journalist in the Press Club of Delhi wanted to know how to start a non-governmental organisation ( ngo ). It is the fastest way to make money, he said. You get grants worth several lakh rupees for doing nothing, just a little bit of writing. Which goes to show …
IN the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the only source of information for environmentalists was the print media. Mark Neuzil and William Kovarik in their book
environment does not respect political boundaries and, therefore, environmental journalists are truly internationalists, or they ought to be. This privilege at the same time calls for certain responsibilities. One key responsibility is to create a just communication order. A sense of justice is central to the environmental concern. But have …
That nature writing is seri ous business, representing a delicate combination of art and science, imagination and accurate information, empa thy and deliber ate detachment, is evident from the book. The history of nature writing, as the editor introduces it, is in more ways than one a history of humanity, …
RISKING a split with the Conservative government, French President Francois Mitterrand said in an interview with Austrian media, that France and other atomic powers should refrain from breaking the moratorium on nuclear weapons testing. The Conservative government is under strong pressure from its parliamentarians and the defence establishment to reverse …
TALKING of environment education in schools, I can't help feeling the painful irony that we, the inheritors of the Vedas, are exploring in 1993 ways to conscientise our young citizenry about our environment. Vedic chants such as Servai Bhavantu Sukhina placed value on balance and equilibrium; sanyam (discipline) and sahachar …
You've been writing about environmental issues for a long time, but your writings are people-oriented. Is this due to your personal background? My personal background is almost horrid. I have been a writer and novelist and written more than 80 dramas. I have tried almost every conceivable medium of self-expression. …
