Drop in unemployment not necessarily good news
the 61st round of the National Sample Survey (nss) seems to suggest that the unemployment rate in the country has come down. But this statistic has to be read in context. The entire gamut of data
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Nandigram and CPI M 's insensitivity to rural sector
the massacre at Nandigram came as a shock to most. In retrospect, though, it needn't have. cpi(m)'s unrelenting drive to industrialise and urbanise West Bengal has had the makings of a disaster for
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Containing a virus
prime Minister Manmohan Singh rightly called Naxalism a "virus' during a meeting with chief ministers of Naxalite-affected states. Unfortunately, he did not take the analogy further. A virus cannot
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Default drinking water
'Corporate Responsibility' has died a fancy death at the altar of public relations. A recent chemical analysis of branded packaged drinking water commonly called bottled water conducted by the Pollution Monitoring laboratory of the Centre for Science an
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On the defensive at Cancun?
Recently Arun Jaitley identified agriculture and investment as the two main issues for next month s World Trade Organization ministerial conference in Cancun, Mexico. Jaitley is India s union minister of commerce and industry, and head of the Indian dele
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300 dead, and counting
Andhra Pradesh is a watershed for agriculture in post independent India. For the government
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A government in denial
Cannot wish ecological poverty away
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Royale finish
Politics preys on wildlife
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Not in Delhi s backyard
Middle class environmentalism isn t the way ahead
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Highrise in loose mud
Dharavi resettlement creates a windfall for builders. Cost: local entrepreneurship
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Up for sale
There should be open bidding for India s agriculture universities
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Loopholes in food safety legislation
New food safety legislation does not fit the health bill
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Red said go
West Bengal s Left Front government is all set to displace farmers
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Anti Naxal operations a cover for exploiting tribal people
the Salwa Judum movement, an armed counter-Naxalite campaign in Chhattisgarh comprising of local tribal and non-tribal people backed by the state, is precipitating a deeper crisis in the state
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Left in peace L.I.P.
Forget ideological shibboleths. The market is the great equaliser. Even politically
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Issues which history forgot
TODAY, the world seems to be divided into two groups: those who believe in the restrained use of natural resources as they are finite and those who hold that human technological intervention can
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Awareness growing about Amazon destruction
GEORGE Monbiot's book, for which he risked his life, is a delightfully lucid piece of serious investigative journalism on the ecological destruction of the Amazon, which he describes as
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How images can break or make corporations
HOW IMPORTANT is a chief executive's personality in the way a corporation works? Very, says Matthew Lynn in this book. In a game with billions at stake, it is a rare breed of people who have the
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Quality takes back seat in agribusiness
USE OF additives, irradiation and the threat of pesticide residues and food-borne infections have led to the quality of diet being questioned these days as never before. Factory Farming comes as a
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UNDP report stresses people's participation
The United Nations Development Programme's third and latest report acclaims participation as the cornerstone of human development. This springs from its recognition that "people's participation is