Shifting from hell to hell
EVERY once in a few years, the authorities of the National Capital Territory of Delhi appear to notice with considerable shock that industries in the city may be polluting the city's atmosphere. When
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The NGO problem
THE RECENT controversy over the national and global role of non-government organisations (NGOs), generated at the preparatory meeting for the United Nations-sponsored International Conference on
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All the weight of the world
"CARRYING capacity" is likely to be the Catchphrase of the Year. The term is liberally sprinkled throughout State of the World Report 1994, like some sort of mantra. To illustrate "a breach of
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When the birds come home...
A symbiosis between bird and man provides a welcome winter home for the blacknecked crane, rediscovered in India after four decades
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In the forests of the night
THE TRADE sanctions imposed by the United States on Taiwan for the latter's alleged reluctance in cracking down on trafficking in tigers and rhinoceroses is bound to further fuel the debate over use
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Grasses aren't meant for cows alone
I AM not a botanist and being a Bengali with a particular inclination for non-vegetarian food, I almost shared the sentiment, "Grasses are meant for cows." But reading Grass Evolution and
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Spotlight on a scientist
PERHAPS the most interesting aspect of the speculation in the press about A P J Abdul Kalam Khan's continued association with India's missile development programme was the relatively high degree of
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The call of the wild
The Maldhari community of Saurashtra, reputed to be among the oldest inhabitants of this region, were traditionally livestock breeders, pastoral nomads roaming the wilds in search of the elusive
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Patent prejudice
This verbally loaded anti GATT film is a shrill intellectual harvest that tends to over romanticise the small organic farmer
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Trade off human rights and the market
The clarion call of open markets could override the North's 'insistence' on linking trade with human rights and environmental issues
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'Deep sea fishing in India is already a flop'
THOMAS KOCHERY was one of the first persons in India to have taken up the issue of unsustainable exploitation of marine resources and its impact on traditional fishing communities. He rose to national prominence during the 1983 fishworkers" strike in Kera
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Calling the third Sector
Non governmental organisations have a vital role to play in motivating the people to manage their own resources better
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Patterns of chaos
IN HIS now-classic Foundation science fiction series, Isaac Asimov introduced the "science" of "psychohistory" -- the mathematical modelling of social dynamics. The objective of "psychohistory" was
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Rebellion revisited
Things have gone from bad to worse in the hills of Rampachodavaram despite waves of rebellion against injustice
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Playing in the concrete jungle
THE tireless cliche that India lives in its villages has been open to gross political abuse. So much so that our plans for our cities have been victims of feeble-mindedness. The Nagar Palika Bill,
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Rice fields forever
BIOTECHNOLOGY has been occasionally caught giving itself a pat on the back and parrying questions of ethics by flaunting its effects on crop production, rice included. The information contained in
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Cerebral clowning
In keeping with its determinedly frothy approach to TV programming, Aavishkar, Zee TV's weekly science programme (Monday evenings at 5 pm) has at least as much clowning around as cerebral
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That sinking feeling
CLIMATES and sea-level changes are intimately related. An increase in mean global temperature is directly proportionate to the sea level, the circulation patterns of ocean waters. This summarises the
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The drowning of an island
Imagine living on a bump of land that the river is nibbling away relentlessly...
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'Nature's molecules are complex; the synthetic chemist can hardly make them'
Work has started on a gigantic database of medicinal and aromatic plants from knowledge handed down through tradition. The Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT), a Bangalore-base NGO, is busy building a countrywide network of tr