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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Why liquidate our future?
Who does the water under the ground belong to? Who has the right to exploit it? Are there limits on what can be extracted? Till three months ago, the answers to such questions were simple.
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Democracy must be worked at
The Joint Parliamentary Committee JPC was set up to investigate the issue of pesticides in cold drinks, and everyone told us that we had reached a dead end. Parliamentarians aren t interested,
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Another dismissal is possible
The World Social Forum WSF concluded in Mumbai. Then began the World Economic Forum in Davos. A little before these, a glitzy automobile fair in Delhi. One after the other, loud and strident
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Another dismissal is possible
The World Social Forum WSF concluded in Mumbai. Then began the World Economic Forum in Davos. A little before these, a glitzy automobile fair in Delhi. One after the other, loud and strident
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Another dismissal is possible
The World Social Forum WSF concluded in Mumbai. Then began the World Economic Forum in Davos. A little before these, a glitzy automobile fair in Delhi. One after the other, loud and strident
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Only look for answers
I happened to attend, recently, a jan sunwai peoples court on water, convened by the National Federation of Indian Women. Women came from over 15 states to report on the state of their water.
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The drying up of the Jaisamand lake
If hydrocide the deliberate murder of a water body was a cognisable offence in India, the administrators of Udaipur city would be behind bars.Why? Because the water need and greed of this city has sucked out the water from lake Jaisamand, an engineeri
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The real maths of the world
Our world did change in 2003. The US war on Iraq made sure that the rules of engagement were changed, perhaps for a long time to come. The change I see most visible is that the world has become
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Sublimating climate change
Surreal. This is how a newspaper described the just concluded meeting on climate change in Milan. Ministers and several hundred government officials gathered to fuss over the final details of a
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The dumber number game
I met an eminent economist last week. He quoted another eminent economist cum columnist, and asked me if it was true that apples had higher pesticide residues than Coke or Pepsi. Before I could