Let the journey choose the vehicle
Heather Allen looks at issues related to sustainable development at the International Association of Public Transport, Brussels. Pradip Saha caught up with her on issues topical to her work.
Pradip Saha
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Rainwater harvesting aids tsunami hit Sri Lankan villages
TWO years after the Asian tsunami, as the images of devastation fade off from global public memory, the disaster persists for villages along the coastline of Sri Lanka's Southern Province. Survivors
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Veerbhadra Mishra on Ganga Action Plan
Veerbhadra Mishra heads the Sankat Mochan Foundation, an NGO at the forefront in trying to revive the Ganga s fortunes in Varanasi. A man who wears many hats head priest of the Sankat Mochan Temple, a former engineer, an activist Mishra tells Pradip S
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At the receiving end
Bangladesh jittery over India’s river linking scheme
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The end of art...
...as they know it. Documenta 11 diffuses the boundary between politics and aesthetics
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If the burner's too big, make it fit
A pharmaceutical multinational in India has set up an incinerator that suits it just fine
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From copycats to new stylists
HEADLINES about Ranthambhore sanctuary in Rajasthan are usually about its vanishing tiger population, but it was recently featured in the news for a very different reason. Artists from villages
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Short shrift to environment
A recent festival of short films bombed by and large
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Environmental music
ENVIRONMENTAL issues seem to be fetching considerable mileage for television programmers who flood us from abroad. Even Baywatch last week featured an environmental issue: when one of the shapely
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Entangled
10,000 south Bengal fisherfolk, in a net not of their making