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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Partisan and patently painful
how many miles must a Bill traverse before you can call it an Act? Apparently, there is no end to this. The recent case of the secretary in the department of industrial development (ministry of
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Temple of doom
hirakud, one of the largest and the oldest dams in the country, has developed cracks. Its leaking walls may fall apart any time and sweep away the coastal delta of Puri and Cuttack. The Orissa
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Hot and anxious
<p>Global climate change is today a spectre which allows for no ostriches. Scientific data is piling up to indict human activity as the source of the current phase of warming. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/COP-DTE-1996.pdf"
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Burn water!
A college dropout from a south Indian village, has produced a form of crude, low sulphur petroleum by mixing water and some herbs, shown that it can run engines in science labs and vehicles on the road and is now awaiting further research and a patent
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Landward bound
INVASIONS OF THE LAND Malcom S Gordon and Everett S Olson University Press, New York, 1995 that organic evolution on earth began first in the sea is certain, but the manner in which land was
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Jekyll and Hyde
Adivasis in Gujarat are up in arms against a person who until recently was known as their spokesperson
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Together we stand
However Long is Forever Michael Isaac and Viren Kanitkar 17 mins
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Less poison, now
Has the fear about a stolen future really hit us legislators? Till the end of May, the debate over what is surely the most controversial book of the year (The Stolen Future, by Theo Colborn and
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Troubleshooting
Ionising radiation can be used to destroy pollutants like polychlorinated biphenyles (PCBs) and heavy metals from water. The radiation treatment is being developed at the US government's National
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Drowning all hope
The United Front government s agreement on the contentious issue regarding the Sardar Sarovar dam, callously ignored the interests of the people of the Narmada valley