First food: a taste of India’s biodiversity
This collection of around 100 recipes from different parts of the country brings to life the magic that takes place once biodiversity is combined with culinary dexterity.
Sunita Narain
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Life after the Kyoto Protocol
All politicians and scientists except George Bush and his group of climate skeptic scientists accept climate change is now inevitable and that it will adversely, perhaps devastatingly, impact
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Moving nimbly beyond
People who understand water management will tell you that India is a traditional water economy and that it has to make the transition to a modern water economy. In other words, the water sector has to become part of the formalised economy. As with any feel-right challenge, this is normally accepted to be true. <br>
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Budget 2005-2006: the missing audit
The discussions on the Union budget 2005 2006 reflect the media s middle class obsession. The finance minister s proposal for a fringe tax on perquisites and other benefits of the salariat was
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Time to tell the truth again
I really hope we are proved wrong when we say there are no tigers left in the Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan. But if it is so, what is now increasingly accepted as a sad fact should actually make
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Science after the tsunami
Four years ago, this magazine s editor, environmentalist Anil Agarwal, wrote a scathing comment after the Bhuj earthquake: Disasters come and go but our government has become a permanent disaster .
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Agenda unlimited
Across India, people have taken their destinies into their hands - improving their future. A compendium of such stories, reported over 12 years.
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Joining the dots: the report of the tiger task force
The Tiger Task Force was set up because of a crisis
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Cars, more cars
I recently visited Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai. The singular impression I have of all these cities, and of others I occasionally visit of course the one I live in, Delhi is one of noise,
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The poverty of policy
It is often said that the next war in the world will be fought over water. I do not know if this prophecy will come true. But I do know that skirmishes and even full fledged battles over water are
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Re-energise yourself
This month, even as the Russian cabinet approved the Kyoto Protocol and sent it on to parliament for ratification, the price of oil crossed US $50 per barrel a 60 per cent increase in the price of