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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"Nature is not loved in India"
HARISH GAONKAR took his childhood passion for butterflies seriously enough to carve out an illustrious career in lepidopterology for himself. A polyglot, Gaonkar prefers illustrating his own work His interests seem to reflect a rare blend ofscien
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Cauvery: manage demand, not supply
OCCAMISM and chicanery marked the latest in the annual ritual of the Cauvery dispute, with the Prime Minister, P V Narasimha Rao, ordering Karnataka to release six thousand million cubic feet
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Tackling The MNC Menace
TO USHER in new technology and additional investment, and promote exports, Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) is advocated by several experts. All DFI'S opponents argue that multinational companies
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All gold and hellish litter
Beyond all that glittering in the congested streets of Calcutta's sex districts, is defiled environment and morbid health conditions
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Back To Swadeshi
BASICALLY the term sivadcshi covers all aspects of national development - social, political, cultural, economic, international, science and technology and education. Developmental models based
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Pens not swords
Survival International, a global organisation supporting tribal peoples, has launched a letter campaign to prevent the devastation of the lands of the Igorot tribals in the northern
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The cell snatchers
And now it is the turn for human cells to be patented on the sly by scientific vampires', as shows the bizarre case of a Hagahai tribal male
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Damn it!
The Mekong river flowing through six South-East Asian countries is to be arrested by the planned construction of nearly 76 dams. The Mekong Watch Network (MWN) a coalition of NGOs,
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Better late than never
At last the Gujarat government has announced a cash award for those educating the masses about the need for planting trees and taking care of them. The award carries a sum of Rs 70,000. To be
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Nuclear day dreaming
A cloud o criticism forms over the proposal to set up a high power nuclear plant at Kudangulam in Tamil Nadu