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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
- 30/01/2003
Where have all the sparrows gone?

Looks as if they are going the way of the dodo
- 30/01/2003
- - Wheat
  - Endangered Species
  - Aldrin
  - Pesticide Residues
  - Birds
  - Research
  - Africa
  - Europe
  - India
Tough trial

Can Indian traditional medicines transfer their ancient efficacy to the modern era?
- 30/01/2003
Confused and weak

The Biological Diversity Act has lost sight of what it originally set out to do
- 30/01/2003
S&T R&D = 8% GDP growth

High office and scientific understanding seem further apart today
- 30/01/2003
- Science
Where are the people?

I begin by expressing grave concern about the fact that the government and the bureaucracy, especially the forest department, have been so secretive about introducing the Amendment Bill to the
- 14/01/2003
- - Legislation
  - India
Whether report

Climate is changing. So must the scientific attitude
- 14/01/2003
Don t give up the fight

I smelt the air of Ahmedabad city this week. It took me back to the time when Delhi's air was much the same. When breathing was like wheezing, and everyone complained about constantly feeling ill.
- 14/01/2003
Halfway there

The Wildlife Protection Act Amendment Bill has been passed in the current parliament session. Down To Earth had invited experts to comment on the Bill before it became an Act
- 14/01/2003
Unfair balance

The Wildlife (Protection) Amendment Bill 2002 (the Bill) has come 30 years after the Wild Life (Protection) Act 1972. Have these three decades been used to integrate the critical lessons learnt from
- 14/01/2003
Prickly plans

Will those playing in MEF s new game be coopted?
- 14/01/2003
Unhealthy ways

Poor countries can still not access cheap medicines
- 30/12/2002
Alarmingly poor

RODDAM NARASIMHA, director of the Bangalore based National Institute of Advanced Studies, is upset about the quality of research and lack of infrastructural encouragement that scientists, and those aspiring to a career in science,
- 30/12/2002
Hunger statistics

FOOD INSECURITY ATLAS OF RURAL INDIA . FOOD INSECURITY ATLAS OF URBAN INDIA . M S Swaminathan Research Foundation . World Food Programme . 2001 and 2002 "Indian famines are famines of work, not of
- 30/12/2002
How cities (don't) run

Last week I met an official of the local municipal corporation to discuss a property tax case, a blatantly inaccurate and astronomical assessment. I asked: why? Said this officer, Harassment is our
- 30/12/2002
The Krishna lesson

River waters are contested ground. What is needed is an equity based agenda
- 30/12/2002
Looking for votes?

Ride the Clean Air tiger
- 30/12/2002
State sponsors disability

Several UP villages fall prey to crippling disease (Read full article)
- 30/12/2002
PILing up pressure

HC tells UP government to submit action taken report on fluorosis incidence
- 30/12/2002
Administering illness

Hardly a democratic ideal
- 30/12/2002