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Himachal Pradesh
Tangy turnip
Issue Date: Dec 18, 2010
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Tangy Turnip
by Rohit Pathania
Generally cooked in Himachal Pradesh, the recipe is rich in vitamin C. The green leaves of the turnip top (turnip greens) are a good source of vitamin A, folate, vitamin C, vitamin K and calcium.
A pause on hydropower
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2010
The decision of the Union environment ministry to allow parts of the Ganga’s tributaries to flow freely in Uttarakhand, indicates there is finally some recognition of the environmental impacts of hydel projects, long hyped as clean energy producers.
What the government failed to do
The cold deserts of Himalaya have very limited natural resources, fragile ecosystems, dry air, low irrigation potential and low soil productivity. Temperatures dip to -40ºC in winters with wind velocity 50 to 70 km per hour.Desert healer
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2010
It was 3 pm. I was on top of a mountain in the middle of the only green expanse in the cold desert in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. For the last 50 km I saw only mountains of stones and sand, and I would see only desert for the next 100 km or so. In between was this village full of trees. Lush greenery, herds of sheep feeding on clover and ponies carting compost offered a view far removed from what the name of the village evokes; Thang Karma means white open field in the Himachali language.
Promised land turns arid
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2010
PEOPLE displaced by the Pong dam are still waiting to be rehabilitated, forty years after the dam was built. They were promised canal-irrigated land in Ganganagar district, but the Rajasthan government is now offering them semiarid land in Bikaner. The dam in Himachal Pradesh supplies water to Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.
Bee farms to shops
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2010
The journey of honey from bee farms to breakfast tables has become complex with time. From wild honey gatherers, honey supply has passed into the hands of cooperatives of individual beekeepers and then to big companies.
Letters
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2010
Rohtang ecology under threat
Dams and TB
Issue Date: Jul 19, 2010
Dr Surya Prakash Boras is fighting a case in Himachal Pradesh High Court against illegal dumping by Karcham-wangtoo dam builders in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. He got alarmed by the number of TB patients he receives from around the construction area. Tribals of kinnaur have been up in arms against 34 proposed projects in the district. If one dam project on the Sutlej can lead to felling down of thousands of trees and water channels being used to dump the project debris, what will happen if all projects get constructed, Dr Surya asks.
High altitude dams cause low apple yield
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2010
Satya Devi’s 35 apple trees have borne few fruits this year. The 60- year-old blames it on too little moisture in the soil and too much dust in the air that settles on the leaves.
Jaypee powers ahead in Himachal
@Jyotika_Sood Issue Date: Jun 30, 2010
VILLAGES on the border of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab are protesting an under-construction thermal power plant in Solan district.
