Environmentalist, prove thyself
It is getting imperative for green dreamers to marshal together their facts and place hair tearing emotion on the backburner
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:nimals and their habitat are inseparable'
JON CHARLES COE, a landscape architect in Coe Lee Robinson Roesch Inc, USA, was instrumental in turning around the Atlanta zoo from a badly managed one to one of the best in the US. In the process, he and his colleagues evolved a new concept of 'zoo desig
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Information highway: questions of powerdrive
INFORMATION is power. "Information highways" serve as economic channels for world trade now, just as the sealanes, railways and roads were the foundation of trade and commerce in times past. Small
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Not so bitter
Fears of neem patenting by Western MNCs are blown out of proportion
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Moral issue in a bathtub
"DELHI will not have to beg for water any more," was the preening claim of chief minister Madanlal Khurana on May 12, after his counterparts from Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Uttar
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The return of leather weather
AMONG the many perishable theories that poured out of the minds of management gurus was the notion of sunrise and sunset industries. Beyond the phase of maturity, the prophets laid down, industries
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To feed the cattle of the West
Extensive soya bean cultivation in Madhya Pradesh to supply fodder to the West has cut a swathe of degradation
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Loose cannons
When the army and the government team up to form an assault team against villagers protesting against a firing range, all hell can break loose
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Caught by the horns
The closure of the Idgah abattoir gets under the skins of meat eaters in the Capital, who have turned into unwilling vegetarians
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Security begins in the stomach
LITTLE attention has been paid to the effects of current and emerging trade arrangements, vis-a-vis GATT, on Indian food security issues. A number of related issues have been given more serious
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The contours of repression
The government has consistently steamrolled opposition to the Sardar Sarovar project
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A fig for social concerns
The holy cow of structural adjustments holds supreme sway, leaving the people to shift for themselves
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The margins of development
FOR sheer numbers, the coming together last fortnight of the dam-affected people of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan at Deoli in the Tonk district of the last named state was a small affair, but
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Mushroom magic
In a recent breakthrough, an Indian mushroom has been found to be extremely effective in controlling heavy metal pollution
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The continuing irrelevance of Agenda 21
AGENDA 12 resources to the South have been consistently falling - and there hangs the threat of a further plummet. Even the North- initiated Global Environment Facility has failed to raise the
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Surviving on wood
Collecting fuelwood provides a basis for survival for the poor around Dharwar
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Tools for sharing
"WE ARE not interested in how to kill pests or how cowdung cakes are to be made. We know all these things. We only want entertainment and cinema songs. Let the city dwellers who do not know anything
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The oracle of biotechnology
The film establishes incontrovertibly that no other region of science has raised as many hackles as biotechnology
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A pollution whodunit
DESPITE (or is it because of?) his lifelong work in fields directly related to environment, Eisenbud is not likely to be a mascot for most of today's environmentalists. About the green movement's
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'Development paradigms should match tribal culture'
SITAKANTA MAHAPATRA"S poetry got him the prestigious Jnanpith award for 1993. His poems, written in Oriya, have been translated into many Indian languages as well as English and several other European languages. His poems, which have been acclaimed as hav