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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The climate-forest continuum
I remember how I first learnt about global warming. It was in the late 1980s. My colleague Anil Agarwal and I were searching for policies and practices to regenerate wasted common lands. We quickly
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Rivers of discord
Why is everything important reduced to a dramatic farce in our country? Take the Cauvery imbroglio. The issue is serious and important. Namely how will states, regions and people share increasingly
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Knowledge doctrines
What has President George Bush s international strategy paper released this fortnight, have to do with the British government sponsored report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights?
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The World After
The World Summit on Sustainable Development wssd is over. The best thing about it is that it could have been much worse. As I write this with regret and bitterness about the idealism of times gone
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Open letter to Prime Minister Vajpayee
Dear Mr Vajpayee, A few months ago you spoke passionately about the need to involve local communities in water management. Releasing the national water policy document, you said harnessing every
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Science in our daily lives
Over a year ago, Anil Agarwal wrote in this column that science is a political orphan. He was discussing how even as we remain bombastic about our prowess in science, there is so little science in
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The politics of empty words
The new buzzword in the climate research circles is vulnerability and adaptation. Just like most of the climate discussion the words have become so dense, that their meaning is lost on most, except
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Taking the US to democracy
In matters of global affairs today, there is one question that is never directly asked. But it is on everybody s mind, if not on the tip of the tongue. People don t ask it simply because they don t
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A journey with you
We have readers across the world. But in India, our readers can be found in virtually every district of the country
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Knock-knock who's there?
community based water harvesting strategies is key to water security and food security