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Health

Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury: The revolutionary who transformed healthcare

Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury passed away on April 11, 2023 at the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in Dhaka

Environment

धुआं-मुक्त ‘सिटी ऑफ जॉय’

धुएं की बढ़ती समस्या ने आधिकारिक चिंता और घबराहट पैदा क�…

Artisans the untold story

Despair and devastation stare India's artisans in their face, as resource crunch, modern civilisation and government apathy combine in an …

Artisans the untold story

Despair and devastation stare India's artisans in their face, as resource crunch, modern civilisation and government apathy combine in an …

Think Jap, be Indian

An automobile mechanic solves a dusty riddle

Protest damned

The first tremors of ego clashes have rattled the anti-Tehri dam movement

Saying it with flowers

Flowers may wither, but not their importance in the cultures of most countries

Dang and blast

The anachronistic, and explosive, colonial formula of exploiting forests by denying the forest people their rights is still being followed to the …

Developing distress

The birth-pangs of development have been faced so far by the downtrodden, but things need to change soon

Houses of cards

A recent workshop reveals that the rehabilitation of the 1993 Marathwada earthquake victims was a bloody farce

Population prompts progress

The experience of a Kenyan community contradicts a traditional theory that population and development are inversely proportional

Who's afraid of Dai Qing?

YANGTZE! YANGTZE! Dai Qing Publisher: Probe International, Earthscan, London Price: L12.95

Everything else being equal

EQUITY IS GOOD SCIENCE by C V Seshadri Publisher: Shri AMM Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre, Madras Price: Rs 150

Healer extraordinaire

The death of Arun Kumar Sen, the inspiration behind the Students' Health Home, the biggest medical insurance scheme run by students in the country,…

Deep waters

The Indian Ocean's boat-building and navigational techniques, though largely ignored, have survived over thousands of years

Value addition

A Pune teacher develops a calculator made out of cardboard for as little as Rs 15, which can even handle mindbending logarithms.

Reinterpreting Darwin

THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION Robert J Richards Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago Price: Not stated

Caught between boars and bureaucracy

Authorities of a wildlife sanctuary propose to curb the menace of rampaging wild boars by providing affected villagers with, among other things, …

Science reveals the magic in herbal cures

Recent studies have brought to light the science behind traditional herbal medicinal systems.

A motley crew of forest protectors

In Karnataka's Kodagu district, a group of people battling timber traders trying to exploit their region's virgin forests has earned the wrath of …

Acknowledging the role of the arbitrator

The Nuer tribals of Sudan settled their disputes in more organised and effective a manner than modern societies

Rivers

Cauvery calamity

Promotion of water-guzzling crops like rice is leading to maximum utilisation of river waters in India. The Cauvery dispute between Karnataka and …

Fisherfolk thwart bid to reclaim wetlands

A unique fishing cooperative that salvaged the wetlands leased to them by the Calcutta Port Trust has successfully fought off attempts to …

"Power" to the people irks Bengal villagers

Villagers near Calcutta contend they have been unfairly done out of their land by a private thermal power plant project

UNDP report stresses people's participation

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1993 UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi Price: Rs 190

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