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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I really have no problem with the World Bank
I write this because of the continued ineptness of its policies. It makes us lose time and direction again and again. Just look at the latest so called water privatisation programme of the Bank and
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A new deal
We got off the train at Abu Road station in Rajasthan to visit two cement plants located in the nearby district of Sirohi. The drive was predictable dry stretches interspersed with marginal
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2006: the tiger re-appears
2005 was definitely the year of the Indian tiger. The year began with the tragic news of this magnificent animal s disappearance from the Sariska tiger reserve, a protected space. This news became,
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It's dark outside the TV grab
In this day of television grabs, policies are about slugfests. The logic of the grab is that any discussion must be heated, with sharply divided positions clear proponents and opponents. It is a
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Desperately seeking waste
By the time you read this, the decision would have been taken: to allow or not to allow the French warship Le Clemenceau into India, so that it can be dismantled with unknown quantities of toxic
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Poultry business too serious to be left to industry
The news that Indian poultry in parts of Maharashtra and Gujarat have been detected with the deadly avian influenza virus may have temporarily shaken chicken eaters in the country. But it will be a
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Talk technology, not subsidies, to benefit the poor
The C Rangarajan committee to review prices of petroleum products says that the government should increase the price of liquefied petroleum gas lpg
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The poor? They are the government's problem
Everybody knows one hand of the government does not know what the other is up to. But it does make a difference when a proposed programme of the government contradicts and, perhaps, even fatally
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Narmada, Bhopal are issues of democracy, fair deals
Over the past few days, Jantar Mantar has been the venue of two protests against two of worst tragedies Independent India has witnessed. On one side of the road were activists
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Old-style corruption better?
A journalist from the International Herald Tribune asked my opinion about what he called modern forms of lobbying that us multinatio nals operating in India engaged in. He was investigating