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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Thinking ahead
Indians probably never cared much for centralised governance systems. History is full of examples from the days of Kautilya when rulers stabbed each other in the back for petty gains
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A dying craft
The technique of producing iron from low grade ore used by the Agarias was environmentally sound. But the community is marginalised today, and their craft is a dying art
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Due recognition
The latest Western celebrity to seek the East's heating touch is British billionaire and father-in-law of cricket icon lmran Khan, Sir James Goldsmith. The healer is the renowned metal
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Without a trace
Medicinal plant biodiversity is rapidly vanishing in India and the government has still to come up with a plan of action
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Home remedies
Indigenous is the byword in the water harvesting techniques followed in India s northeast. In Meghalaya, an intricate network of bamboo pipes is used to irrigate betel leaf or black pepper crops in rocky areas where no channels can be built, a practice wh
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Roofs of plenty
The roofs of Mizoram s homes offer a solution to the state s water crisis
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When reforms ricochet
The biggest threat to Vietnam s bio diversity comes from deforestation. In the past 25 years, the total area of natural forests has declined at an average 350,000 hectares per year. To save its forests, the nation has evolved a two pronged strategy: the
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Grandma s recipes
granny often knows best. Whenever there was a sore throat or a toothache we went to her and grandma obligingly pulled out a potion from her treasure trove of remedies. Many of them even worked.
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Legacy of an empire
Encouraged by their ninth century benevolent rulers, Gond landlords and villagers had set up an intricate and immensely useful network of <i>katas</i> , traditional water harvesting structu res. But modern disinterest and apathy have served to decimate