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
Traditional Knowledge
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The salutary influence of irrigation on human settlement, economy and political power in pre-modern southeast Asia
The tropical monsoon rhythm for over centuries obviously occasioned the development of water works which facilitated wet rice cultivation in pre-modern Southeast Asia.
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INDSAFARI An organic pesticide for tea
Surapala's Vrikshayurveda and Chakrapani Mishra's Vishvavallabha recommend the use of kunapa (liquid manure) for nourishment of trees and plants.
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Fertility management dynamics of soil: Exploration of farmers' hidden wisdom
Farmers's wisdom of soil taxonomy and fertility management dynamics is based on trial and error, problem solving and group approach to manage the natural resources. The farmers' knowledge of defining the soil taxonomy and fertility management practices is compatible to their adaptive skills and rich source of location-specific ecological information.
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Written word protects
Registers can help preserve the traditional knowledge of India s healers
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Two good men
Healers for All Reasons
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Thick description
Idioms or one well grounded interpretation?
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KADATAS Karnataka
Dating back to 1250 AD, <i>kadatas</i> or <i>kaditas</i> are a rich resource on medieval and early modern Karnataka. Kept by village accountants and Mysore's mercantile community, they contain records of transactions between landowners and cultivators, sometimes a <i>Mutt</i> and its devotees. Most are in Kannada, but some have been found in Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Sanskrit, though they too are written in the Kannada script <br>
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MONPA Arunachal Pradesh
Some of the finest paper in the world is still made in the remote villages of hilly Tawang district in Arunachal Pradesh, whose Buddhist Monpa and Sherdukpan tribes are skilled artists.
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PALM LEAF Across eastern and southern India
Before paper, palm leaf or <i>Ola</i> was the most popular material used for writing and painting in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand and Indonesia.
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SANCHI PAAT Assam
A writing technique used in Assam's Majuli islands since 600 AD <br>