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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 …

Reinterpreting Darwin

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

How green is the dollar?

WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1992- DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT Publisher. OUP for the World Bank Price: Not stated

Driving home a point without any solutions

Our Country, The Planet -- Forging a Partnership For Survival Shridath Ramphal Publisher: Island Press, Washington D.C. Price: US $15

The wisdom of indigenous healers

Medicinal Plants of India - Vols I & II S K Jain and Robert A DeFillips Publisher: Reference Publications Price: US $94.95

Two important years in the hee of Charles Darwin

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin - Volume 7 (1858-1859) Edited by Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith Publisher: Cambridge University …

Echoing the soul of rural India

Mud Laurie Baker Publisher: CAPART, New Delhi Price: Rs 25

UNDP report stresses people's participation

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

Everything else being equal

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

Who's afraid of Dai Qing?

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

Making science, technology serve the people

For R S Hegde, a primary school principal and rural technologist, science is useless if it remains confined to labs and libraries.

I hate scavenging, but what else can I do?

Rameshwari has been working as a scavenger in the pilgrim town of Ajmer in Rajasthan for the last 15 years. She abhors her work, yet she does it …

"There can be no development without women"

REACHING Doongri, a picturesque village perched 1,750 m above sea level in the Pindar valley in Chamoli district, is a daunting task. The nearest …

The revolutionary who transformed health care

ZAFRULLAH Chowdhury draws inspiration as much from Hippocrates as from Mao Zedong. To the first, he owes his medical ideals and to the second, …

The grand old man of Kannada

SOME PEOPLE live in years, others in deeds. At 91, Kota Shivarama Karanth has done both. Journalist, litterateur, dramatist, playwright, …

No more bribes, Gujjars tell foresters

The prospect of being kept out of forests they have occupied for 50 winters, on the pretext of environmental conservation, the Gujjars of Uttar …

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,…

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 …

Houses of cards

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

Developing distress

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

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 …

Deep waters

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

Statehood first, ecology later

Jharkhand's leaders have successfully pressurised the Centre to consider granting autonomy to this region. But they have still not …

Breaking the rural barrier

The Centre for Application of Science and Technology to Rural Areas, set up in 1974, was a bold effort at bringing appropriate technology to the …