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 State s non bureaucratic role of encouraging the people
Indian rulers rarely built water harvesting structures themselves. They, however, encouraged their subjects to build them through fiscal incentives. A revival is possible today only if India returns to a community based system of natural resource managem
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Sacred ways
On irrigation management initiated by temples
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Dying wisdom
<b>Rise and fall of traditional water harvesting systems in India</b> <br> They are called kuhals in Jammu, kuls in Himachal Pradesh and guls in Uttarakhand. The Maharashtrians call them pats . In Ladakh, they are called zings , and i
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Well worth it
Modifications in a traditional water harvesting system promises to augment supplies
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Thought therapy
Spiritual healing is in. New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences is introducing it in its departments. Companies across USA are using it to manage their human resources better. An ashram in Haridwar is bringing it within reach of masses. Sunit
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Beyond 'intelligence'
THE issue of protecting the interests of indigenous people against the unauthorised use and piracy of their valuable genetic material and traditional knowledge has become an important one.
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Pirates in the garden of India
To most Indians, turmeric or haldi is a part of growing up, a magic cure-all for the excesses of childhood. A classic "grandmother's remedy", the virulent yellow powder or paste has been applied to the
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India has lost much to the West
<font class='UCASE'>Lynn Crisanta R Panganiban</font> is a physician in the department of pharmacology at the University of Philippines, Manila. A toxicologist and an active member of the Pesticide Action Network, she attended the International Workshop
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The other course
Traditional curative systems like ayurveda, homoeopathy, acupuncture… are being revived as alternative medicine. But in India and the Orient, the original homes of some of the most effective alternative medical systems in the world, these are reduced to
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The forms of alternative medicine
Mind-body intervention psychotherapy: includes combining medication with discussion, listening to the patient or using more active behavioural and emotive psychological methods; can hasten recovery