The news that Indian poultry in parts of Maharashtra and Gujarat have been detected with the deadly avian influenza virus may have temporarily shaken chicken eaters in the country. But it will be a
By the time you read this, the decision would have been taken: to allow or not to allow the French warship Le Clemenceau into India, so that it can be dismantled with unknown quantities of toxic
In this day of television grabs, policies are about slugfests. The logic of the grab is that any discussion must be heated, with sharply divided positions clear proponents and opponents. It is a
This fortnight 12 tribals were killed in a police firing in Orissa. Their crime: protesting against the acquisition of their land for an industrial park. The state says that it had acquired some
2005 was definitely the year of the Indian tiger. The year began with the tragic news of this magnificent animal s disappearance from the Sariska tiger reserve, a protected space. This news became,
We got off the train at Abu Road station in Rajasthan to visit two cement plants located in the nearby district of Sirohi. The drive was predictable dry stretches interspersed with marginal
There is so much about rural India that escapes notice that one more area of neglect will not break the camel s back. I am talking about the crisis of fodder for livestock. A grim silence surrounds
I write this because of the continued ineptness of its policies. It makes us lose time and direction again and again. Just look at the latest so called water privatisation programme of the Bank and
