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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'It is difficult to sustain a one point literacy programme'
What is the origin of the Pondicherry Science Forum? Inspired by the experiences of the Kerala Shastra Sahitya Parishat, we set up PSF in December 1985 for the popularisation of science. We
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Watery wisdom
Since the '70s, the Israelis have enjoyed international recognition for using well-managed modern technologies to get the Negev desert and other arid parts of their young country to bloom. Perhaps
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Cleaning up the coastline
The hue and cry raised by environmentalists about the Puri beach, castigated by the Central Pollution Control Board as one of the most polluted in India, has finally forced the Orissa government to
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'We have to make population growth compatible with development'
DEVELOPING countries have accepted the inarguable importance of the link between population and economic and social development and natural resources, says NAFIS SADIK, secretary general of the International Conference on Population and Development, 1994,
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Await the Indian Love Canal
WHEN will we see sincere efforts to introduce discipline in the disposal of industrial waste in India? If the official interventions in environmental management in India so far are any indication,
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Counting out pestilence
The patterns that diseases furrow among large sections of a population provide clues to check epidemics
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An earful of high decibels
As the rumble of traffic in the Capital gets louder, experts come up with various ways to clear the clatter
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Pregnant with meaning
FAR from the media hoopla, the developing world is quietly undergoing a reproductive revolution. According to a report released by the World Fertility Survey 1992, birth rates in the developing world have gone down by 1/3rd since the mid 60's. One remarka
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GUJARAT: Turning a blind eye
Industrial estates are proliferating in Gujarat and state pollution control officials admit that waste disposal has not been a priority consideration for any of them. The Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Surat
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If you want to read a book...
...the near universal necessity of being the owner of a book to read it needs immediate and drastic revision