Third World energy in terms of US policy
AN INDICATOR of a society's level of development is the quantity and quality of the energy it consumes. This is made clear by the wide disparity in per capita energy consumption in industrialised and
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UN decisions must be open to public debate
IT IS SAD that the World Health Assembly did not accept the suggestion of AIDS campaigner Jonathan Mann, that the candidate for the director-generalship of the World Health Organisation take part in
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Uninspired view of culture and development
WRITTEN jointly by a sociologist and an anthropologist, the book raises hopes of providing an understanding of uneven development within cultural and historical paradigms. Unfortunately, the reader
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Tears and the drama aside, the message survives
Prabhat Roy's award winning Shwet Paatharer Thala is a tear jerker, which nevertheless effectively preaches the lesson of family welfare.
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The revolutionary who transformed health care
ZAFRULLAH Chowdhury draws inspiration as much from Hippocrates as from Mao Zedong. To the first, he owes his medical ideals and to the second, his taking up a rifle to fight in Bangladesh's war of liberation in 1971. <br><br> Bangladesh owes a lot to Ch
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Time, space set limits to sustainable planning
Sustainable development involves a practical compromise between short term human needs and never ending preservation of natural resources.
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Popular pressure must break this unholy alliance
RICH INDIVIDUALS usually tend to be arrogant. So do rich institutions, such as the World Bank, which is prepared to accept, albeit after much pushing and prodding, that it may have been wrong in
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Every big cat leaves its unmistakable mark
Modern hi tech methods notwithstanding, the traditional technique of counting tigers from pugmarks remains the most efficient.
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Green issues need equitable entitlements
Now that the Cold War is over, concern for the environment will play a vital role in international relations in the foreseeable future.
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Masterly exploration of the state of Earth
AL GORE being elected vice-president of the US has delighted environmentalists elsewhere, for unlike his predecessor Dan Quayle, who once spelt potato with an "e" at the end in a schoolroom
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The world isn't just Big Macs and Coke
How many people can the earth sustain? While the world feverishly computes the answer, it must not forget that sustainability is not just feeding people; love and solidarity also play a prominent role.
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A reluctant candidate for Chile's presidency
Meet Manfred Max Neef. Pianist, economist, eco humanist and politician from Chile, all rolled into one. Internationally acclaimed for his concept of "human scale development", Max Neef concludes traditional development models have failed. Green party cand
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Rural priorities must be set by villagers
WHEN FORMER Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi announced the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY), he received more brickbats than bouquets from both the media and the intellectuals because they saw in it a populist
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An obituary for "development"
MEDIEVAL theologians would have burned Wolfgang Sachs, the editor of The Development Dictionary, and his fellow contributors as heretics and proscribed the book. A second reading has convinced me of
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Thais dig deep into wallets for songbirds
Doves can cost a fortune in Thailand, where the people pay heavily to domesticate the bird.
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Rice politics ignores Asian socio cultural base
THE SUB-TITLE of the book: Research Strategies and IRRI's Technologies Confront Asian Diversity (1950-1980) says what the book is all about. The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), set
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Opium dreams lull most youth in UP district
Opium and its derivatives hold almost complete sway over the lives of most of the youth of Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district, where the Union government's opium factory is also located.
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Delhi's two faces: One rich, the other poor
The slums in the capital city will keep on growing unless the villages around it are allowed to prosper.
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Indian science must stop merely aping West
Cynicism is perhaps the natural fallout of a long career within the government machinery. But when Yash Pal, one of the country's leading scientists, accuses Indian science of lacking a definition of its own and emphasises the need for a cultural revol
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A year of despair -- and hope
PRODUCING a newspaper or a newsmagazine is something like an unending string of little miracles. As technologists designing new machines well know, "if anything can go wrong, it will." The same