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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Kuttanad: a case in point
Kuttanad in Malayalam means 'small town'. But the ecological devastation which human hands have wrought here is in no way small or insignificant
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Blinding concerns
The Visthapit Mukti Vahini (VMV) had its origins in protests against the adverse environmental and social impact of the Ichha and Chandil dams in Bihar, in 1978. The latest attack mounted on its
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God's own country
This is a true story of the beautiful state of Kerala, of its famed backwaters and wetlands, of its rain swept Western Ghats. It also speaks of the grime beneath the hype of a state which is home to "a generation on crutches", and of the environmental h
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Wrong roars
THE Indian tiger has once again grabbed international attention - for all the wrong reasons. The last two months have seen a massive hype being bat up with the release of two controversial reports,
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Anti bodies
Pesticides
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We must move from the reverse to the forward gear
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar is the director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR and a former director of one of its constituent institutes, the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. The 53 year old chemical engineer and scien
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Our sickening health system
ON OCTOBER 17, two-and-half year old Kanika Agarwal bled to death due to dengue fever. That is nothing new to the citizens of Delhi, who saw close to 300 people (if the government is to be
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In search of hunger
While the fare at the Rome Food Summit was aimed mainly to help tummy trimming of ambitious plans drawn up earlier, the general feeling of the observer bordered around caution
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Raised to the ground
Measures to protect groundwater which accounts for 97 per cent of our freshwater resources from the pressures and pollution it is encountering, need to be hastened