Climate lectures dont make lessons
There was a jamboree in my town recently, a gathering of the powerful and famous, to discuss the climate change agreement the world must carve out in Copenhagen by end 2009. But what happened was
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Our little mushroom clouds
Toxic waste is a problem. Whose? RE 0.70 buys one of the cheapest paracetamol pills in the Indian market. An essential drug, it needs to be kept inexpensive. Manufacturing such drugs has a much bigger cost that is never factored into the pricing: pharma factories release large quantities of slurry, often hazardous. This is dumped in places where people either do not know the effects of
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Mint tales
Book>> The Ascent of Money, A Financial History of the World
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Booms are not forever
The recession is a solution, not a problem There is no mess, no crisis, no meltdown. The world
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Crisis creation as a municipal exercise
Indore and Mysore do not want to face the challenge of urban governance USUALLY it is in the summer that water appears in newspaper headlines. Spring is yet to arrive
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The missing public
Where is the public in public health policy? Years ago, when this author studied policy making in public health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, his teachers harped regularly on one point. They said public health is 90 per cent about people and just 10 per cent about drugs and other medical paraphernalia. The truism seems to have been overturned today. Public
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The Satyam in our oil
Which cooking oil is best for us? Why do I ask? Are we not bombarded with advertising messages telling us there is a healthy oil that is good for the heart? They talk of monounsaturated fatty acids
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Money on trees
Book>> The Little REDD Book
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Salwa Judum is peaceful. We support it
Raman Singh
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One persons weed, anothers medicinal plant
Utility, too, lies in the eyes of the beholder THERE is a sweet irony in farm labourers earning from harvest and sale of weeds
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Caution: pastures ahead
Village commons might suffer if forest rights act is not implemented well in Himachal Pradesh The Himachal Pradesh government has asked forest dwellers in the state to put forward their claims to forest rights. But it is being cautious in implementing the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, or fra. The act is being implemented only
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Whats the good word?
Pop culture has always influenced language, today it is the Internet IN THE 1950s, purists frowned when American cartoonist Charles Schulz introduced the antithetical phrase
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The road is a gallery
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Can ants think?
Are humans willing to accept they could? Sometimes the days are gorgeous, balmy and calm with the sky a cloudless soft baby-blue. On such days, I am often stuck in a dark windowless auditorium, lecturing about 100 university students in my animal behaviour class. The pull of the day affects us all. I am somewhat less enthusiastic in talking about the computer-generated slides that I am
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Looking back at the Chilika that was
Film>> Chilika Banks
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Where are the heroes?
Book>> Destination Moon
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Innovation is tricky business
What big buck corporation calls innovation can be the common man
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The public relations republic
Let me dare to predict how regulatory and corporate India will resolve IT major Satyam
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The many-straw revolution
Conflicts will increase in the next two decades but we have what it takes to keep going The next decade or two are going to be rough. Conflicts of all kinds will increase. These will be over water, land, technologies, energy sources, geopolitical power, religion and science. We will lurch from one economic crisis to the other, and struggle to contain the impacts of the havoc we have wrought
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Why this magazine?
WHEN we began publishing in May 1992