First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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Cosmic bolts
Aircraft that mainly rely on computers could take a beating from cosmic rays
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WRONG ADDRESS
All foundries located in the primary residential area of Coimbatore city were told to close down immediately by the green bench of the Madras High Court on March 8. The court directed the state
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Sinking and with a trace!
it could be the splash of the century and with disastrous results. The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii - 20 km long, 10 km wide and 9 km deep - is sinking into the Pacific Ocean at 7 cm a second. The
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Hand in hand
according to a national survey conducted in the late '80s, 69 per cent of India's pro tected areas ( pa s) have human populations and a large number of them have community rights. There fore, the
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Legacy of an empire
Encouraged by their ninth century benevolent rulers, Gond landlords and villagers had set up an intricate and immensely useful network of <i>katas</i> , traditional water harvesting structu res. But modern disinterest and apathy have served to decimate
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Irrigation provenders
Orissa s <i>katas, bandhs</i> and <i>mundas</i> have played a stellar role in reducing severity of famines and droughts
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Reasons for despair
How have these testimonials to Gond foresight fallen to the present sorry state?
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Piloting the train to ruin
DEVE GOWDA's anti-environment measures never seem to come to an end. Before becoming the Prime Minister (PM), Deve Gowda had said in an interview to Down To Earth (DTE): "Often people are being
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Me and my city
Are you happy with your city? The International Finance and Trade Centre, Ahmedabad, tried to find an answer to this question from after surveying 100 upper-income households in 12 Indian cities to