Beris to the rescue

Embodied energy demystified

Water ATM

As dawn breaks, two queues start forming at the only petrol pump in Lakshmangarh, a small town in Rajasthan’s Alwar district. One, obviously, is of people waiting to get their vehicles’ fuel tanks refilled. The other is in front of a simple metal box mounted on the petrol pump’s boundary wall. People like to call it ATM machine.

Simply creative

Loneliness of Narmada Human

December 5, 1982. On the banks of the Narmada at Madhya Pradesh’s Hathnora village, geologist Arun Sonakia stumbled upon what turned out to be the most tantalising fossil discovery of a human ancestor.

Reflections on glass

Keeper of grains

Web unravels

Keep it flowing

Climbers on call

Kerala has 180 million coconut trees. The coconuts need to be plucked every 45 days and at least 50,000 tree climbers are required for this, according to the state’s Economics and Statistical Department data. But there is an acute shortage of labourers skilled in the task.