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MEF and the law of the jungle
I AM the law," said Bumble, the parochial beadle in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, terrorising his wards into submission. The ministry of environment and forests' new draft Conservation of
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A weed maligned
A fearsome weed in the Rann of Kutch is hardly, as is feared, sucking the land to death
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Another bend in the Ganga
THERE will be few who will disagree with the Supreme Court judgement that over Rs 420 crore have been washed away in the first phase of the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) Without any significant
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Dig and forget
A NATION'S track record in its race for development leans heavily on its natural resources. Ferreting out and exploiting these resources cause severe environmental wrenching. Invariably,
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A jumbo by the tail
1994 seems to be prime time for pachyws- First there were 2 books describI dwir lives and future - Douglas edwick's Fate of the Elephant and ow Sukumar's Elephant Nights and VK and then came 2
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Greenhouse break
AFTER the world community woke up to mid fact of living in warmer climes, of the first things they did was to jibe Climate Change Convention. ir then, they have been scurrying Wd to create
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When the state goes forestling...
... people know that it is barking up the wrong tree
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The plague took us by surprise
ASHISH KUMAR MUKHERJEE is the Director General of Health Services DGHS , and as the country's topmost health bureaucrat, was the man in the hotseat when the recent plague outbreak occurred. He took over as DGHS in 1993, and the
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Mystifying the plague
MEDIEVAL afflictions were not restricted to Beed, Surat or other parts of India hit by the plague last fortnight. They showed up in the blinkered reception of the news in several supposedly
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What Cairo did not discuss
THE Cairo conference turned into yet another example of the governments of rich countries bullying the poor ones into accepting their self-centred perception of how the world's natural resources
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The problem with not legalising drugs
To do or not to do: is keeping narcotics illicit helping the underworld?
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Fuel for sorrow
LIQUID petroleum gas (LPG) connection holders in India, by virtue of this privilege, are entiled to 4 litres of kerosene from the public distribution system. Those not so fortunate are supposed to
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The high moral ground
The abortion issue was given more importance than it deserved at the recent Cairo conference on population
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Genetics and the great Faustian pact
IN SHAKESPEARE'S The Tempest, Prospero describes Caliban as "a devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture can never stick". In modern terms, what Prospero means is that Caliban is a knave and that
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Women and capitalism
FEMINIST writing normally falls into one of 2 categories: either it is completely simplistic rabblerousing targeted at the lowest common denominator, or it is jargon-ridden academic work that
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Natural economy and other myths
OPPONENTS of market economies have written many elegies to the erosion by the greed of capitalism of nature's primeval beauty. Their laments are akin to the loss of the Old World that the landed
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Down under water
ALTHOUGH 75 per cent of Earth's surface is covered by water, a very small part of it is available for immediate use. Freshwater for human consumption is limited -- the total freshwater present in the
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The canals of misfortune
Colombo's network of artificial canals carry despair
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'Privatisation can be a major threat to medical research'
Robin Fox, 54, the editor since 1989 of the premier international medical journal, Lancet, was in New Delhi recently for the Lancet Grand Round on Leprosy held at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences aiims and a seminar on "Medicine and Media" or