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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Inundated by colonial misconceptions
The benefits that can be derived from controlling flood waters intelligently have been wasted, largely because of wrong, archaic notions about the floods can play, which have persisted since colonial times.
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Doctoring reservation policy
Confusing admissions rules afflict India's premier medical institute.
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Redefining women's role in society
ANGER should, ideally, lead to introspection. But all the anger generated by struggles women have waged in India over the last 15 years has not yielded a mature body of thought. So when someone like
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On the trail of the hungry herd
A stray herd of elephants in West Bengal was hounded by villagers and government officials, who feared destruction of their crop. The incident brought to the fore the tension between the animals and the villagers.
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Where's the beef?
EVIDENCE of protein shortage is accumulating all over the world, according to Vital Signs 1993, a World Watch Institute publication. The disturbing evidence comes from the production trends of the
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The forest is the god
For the people of Sukhomajri, serving their forest is the greatest religion.
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Ridding Delhi's brothels of HIV
An organisation of sex workers struggles to combat the spread of AIDS in Delhi's red light areas.
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The great experimenter
For ages, Indian farmers have practised ecofriendly farming by using local resources to improve soil fertility and control pests and diseases. However, with the Green Revolution, along with the high-yielding varieties, synthetic fertilisers and pesticides
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The rich get the cheapest fuel
URBAN protests that greeted the sudden Rs 15 increase in the price of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) led the petroleum minister to quickly retract and slash the hike to Rs 10. But was the increase
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Organic farming is the answer
FARMERS and agencies in many parts of the country are experimenting with organic farming-using natural products such as manure - because it is ecofriendly and because such farm products are gaining