Environment and the Middle Path
Like all religions, Buddhism is eco friendly. But lofty ideals rarely translate into pragmatism
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A demon slumbers
Perhaps the largest potential AIDS factory in the world, India remains blissfully apathetic to a scourge that could rip its social fabric apart
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What rural folk need is motivation
V B SALUNKE, a 58-year-old social worker, abandoned his engineering firm in 1972 to mobilise villagers towards community participation in the management of natural resources. The son of an army officer, Salunke developed the system of pani panchayats, or
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Energy at any cost
In its cynical sense, the price of power is a phrase which often evokes rich imagery. Seen from any angle, the Indian government's decision to go in for what is going to be the world's largest,
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The poor anatomy of health care
The linkages between environmental degradation and human health are well established, but it seems that governments, especially in the developing world, are the last to hear the news. And because of
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The numbers game
Can the cold logic of statistics ever breathe life into yardsticks for deciding whether a nation has done good or bad by its people?
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Cropping up
The book gives an account of the major crop plants, their origin and diversification. It also deals with collection, conservation and management of crop plant genetic diversity for future use. It
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Everything else being equal...
The title would cause non-scientists to groan, "Not another harangue on equity..." Scientists might dismiss it as a bit of hackery -- how could anyone be preposterous enough to say that equity is
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Unconventional interference
The United States has decreed that GATT will have the last word on intellectual property rights, thus throwing the Biodiversity Convention to the winds
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'It is difficult to sustain a one point literacy programme'
What is the origin of the Pondicherry Science Forum? Inspired by the experiences of the Kerala Shastra Sahitya Parishat, we set up PSF in December 1985 for the popularisation of science. We
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Watery wisdom
Since the '70s, the Israelis have enjoyed international recognition for using well-managed modern technologies to get the Negev desert and other arid parts of their young country to bloom. Perhaps
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'We have to make population growth compatible with development'
DEVELOPING countries have accepted the inarguable importance of the link between population and economic and social development and natural resources, says NAFIS SADIK, secretary general of the International Conference on Population and Development, 1994,
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Await the Indian Love Canal
WHEN will we see sincere efforts to introduce discipline in the disposal of industrial waste in India? If the official interventions in environmental management in India so far are any indication,
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No kidding
COMMUNICATING with children is no easy task -- writing books for them is even harder. In a conversation with a child, there is scope to answer the hundreds of questions that are asked. But a story
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If you want to read a book...
...the near universal necessity of being the owner of a book to read it needs immediate and drastic revision
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Terms of estrangement
HISTORY is an open book that generations of bureaucrats have steadfastly ignored. Civil servants have repeatedly tried to deny people -- especially tribals and hill people -- access to natural
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Looking forward to the past
Portrait of a village indifferent to the urge to move with the times
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Hothouse sophistry
WHILE resource- and consumption-intensive development depresses most environmentalists, their ideas are acquiring popularity in ways little suspected. When a heat wave scorched parts of north and
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Deep invasion
But will Indian women be safe using Depo Provera?
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Stalking the pugmarks of the animal trade
The last stop of an investigative film is the South American Indian, dirt poor and coerced into poaching by the 'big boss'