Small increase in exports can boost income
PROPRIETY demands India's participation in the final round of the GATT negotiations on the Dunkel Draft (DD). A multilateral system of trade and technology transfer arrangements has its own set of
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Blame it on the foreign hand
The government's policy of screening long staying foreigners for AIDS is an attempt to find a scapegoat for a national health problem
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Cut it out
A critique of recent suggestions to hack tusks, horns and other poachers' delights to save endangered animals.
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The ethics of genetic combinations
The 17th International Congress of Genetics highlighted the role that genetic technology could play in shaping our world.
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THE BIG BAD WHITE MEN
To villagers in Bihar, the Dunkel Draft and GATT are not proposals or agreements but a couple of angrez out to play havoc with their lives.
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Cat sense
Conserving the Malabar civet is good economics
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Healer extraordinaire
The death of Arun Kumar Sen, the inspiration behind the Students' Health Home, the biggest medical insurance scheme run by students in the country, has left an irreplaceable void
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When the land shouts
Van Gujjars in the Shivalik foothills vociferously claim managing authority of the Rajaji National Park
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Limp target
Polio eradication targets strike a wrong note, while the WHO waxes eloquent
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Thinking afresh
Agriculturists in India are gradually moving away from chemical pesticides and fertilisers;
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The poverty of Amartya Sen
Even the "sensitive" Sen has failed to understand ecological poverty"
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Killing is no answer
Here are 18 steps to deal with monkeys that enter human habitation areas. They do not involve killing them
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Home truhs, colonial lies
A noted Gandhian historian, DHARAMPAL has enquired into variousfacets of M British Indian society. He has authored several books, including Indian Science and Technology in the 18th century and The Beautiful Tree. In a conversation with MAX MARTIN in
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More questions than answers
THE BIODIVERSITY treaty which was finalised last fortnight has been hailed as a major victory for the South. As the US and France have both pulled out of the treaty, calling it fundamentally
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Time to put away the begging bowls
LEADERS of developing countries today find in environment a cause of great worldwide concern -- a concern that is steadily growing in their own countries and one that already has deep roots in the
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Democratising access to data
INDIA'S politicians and bureaucrats have often been compared to the five blind men and the elephant, with the difference that they have consciously chosen to be blind. For years, they have woven a
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Picking up the tab for industrial growth
NO OTHER region of India has paid a heavier price for India's industrialisation than the Damodar valley, which traverses the poor states of Bihar and West Bengal. Rich in coal resources, the region
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Bridging the gaps in R & D policy
The 80th session of the Indian Science Congress ended in the first week of January in Goa without adding to anyone's knowledge or wisdom. The importance of the theme of the conference -- Science and
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Brushing aside environmental costs
ISRAEL'S citrus industry, part of its drive to "make the desert bloom", is a spectacular success story with export earnings in the US $150-250 million range, depending on the quality and quantity of
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Chipko: Environmentalism of the poor
WHENEVER a dictionary of green terms is written, even if it is in English, it will contain at least one Hindi word. And that word is Chipko. The idea that people are prepared to hug trees to save