Wikipedia went offline on January 18 to protest the proposed anti-piracy laws in the US. In India, Facebook and Google are facing prosecution for hosting objectionable content. The two moves have again triggered the debate over Internet freedom. Down To Earth takes a look at the significance of the Internet in today’s interconnected world and the threats it faces

India’s moon mission is a search for minerals and prompts questions of area demarcation and ownership of land on the satellite

Countries are queueing up to send missions to the moon. India is one of them with its Chandrayaan programme. But there are reservations.

Indians are denied access to map-based information for almost half of the country on the pretext of national security. Ironically, such information is digitally available on the web. Why does the government possess a penchant for obsolete secrecy?

It has been 20 years now that Indian scientists have been on Antarctica

Can Indian villages be logged on to the infotech highway?

Sacred groves are deteriorating at an alarming rate across the country. There is an urgent need to identify and protect these sacred woods to save nature in its pristine form.

Chittor and Ranthambhore. Proud traditions of valour, chivalry and patriotism are complemented by one of common sense in the storage and use of water resource

The post-GATT liberalisation era has come to India not only with its enchanting platter of economic efficiency, technological treasure trough and fairy-tale promises of 'globalisation' but it has also raised some significant questions regarding its viability altogether. For, socialism is passe and market mechanism has suitably failed, according to some. Now, it is the "swadeshi approach" that can herald a cultural and economic renaissance in India...
But again, this benign concept of swadeshi needs to be amply redefined to be used effectively to flush out that opium called foreign capital and its attendant miseries from the Indian body politic. Then of course, there is the cautious expert who observes that the success of foreign investment lies in negotiating a deal better than Enron