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Jan 15-31, 2005
Cover Story
Time to focus on preventing the next disaster
Editor's page
News
Rural employment bill draws flak for diluting draft
Traders up in arms over direct purchase from farmers
Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation axed
But the EU may still fall short of its Kyoto Protocol target
Was the attck on Chipri oxalic acid plant right?
People of Manipur, Mizoram oppose Tipaimukh dam
India-Pakistan talks on Baglihar project fails
Industries spew poison unchecked in Chhattisgarh
Modus operandi of bacterial wilt uncovered
A floating plant shows Kolkata wetlands are turning toxic
Interview
Siva Vaidhyanathan says he holds a debt to copyright regimes. Studying these systems, allowed him to explore cultural interactions in Afro-American c...
Factsheet
Health and environmental costs of tobacco use far surpass the revenue generated by the sector
Feature
In September 2004, Down To Earth carried a two-part editorial on the failure of the State to deliver basic services. In the September 15, 2004 issue we argued that on the one hand, the State has failed its citizens. On the other, the rich want state apparatuses to wither away — even while lapping up subsidies doled out in the name of the poor. Serving the poor becomes a convenient alibi for the perpetuation of moribund State institutions.
The second part argued that first we need to ascertain the role of the State so far as basic services are concerned and then strengthen the knowledge capacities of public institutions.
We invited responses to our argument:
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the moon was a focus of much interest in the US and the erstwhile USSR. But that politico-scientific Cold War is a thing of the past. And the near future, scientists and t v jayan believe, will herald the true golden age of lunar science
Opinion
Shut it down
Tobacco industry is the true test of health policy
How come Andhra is left out of the mining loot story ? It is good for the nation if we learn to keep environmental and...
The UN environment report states that Ganga would disappear by 2030.There would be no need to train engineers or even Ganga...
A report published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology suggests that babies of...