Anju Sharma

Head of UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Programme which seeks to lay emphasis on the people

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Green, yet mean

Reducing vehicular pollution and promoting the automobile industry: the twain shall probably never meet. A UK government survey too, does not …

When a river weeps

Reduced to being a receptacle of household and industrial wastes and victimised by lopsided development, the Yamuna, Delhi's lifeline, is crying …

Mad hatter's tea party

Some US-based environmental wisemen started out to debate Bihar's problems, sans field knowledge, and went back home foot-in-mouth

Lost in the jungle

The anti-people attitude that environmental NGOs had vehemently opposed in the '80s has resurfaced in the recent draft Forest Policy Bill. The …

Tall tree tales

INDIA'S EUCALYPTUS CRAZE- THE GOD THAT FAILED by N C Saxena Publisher: Sage Publications Price: Rs 275 (hardback)

Big bull

Elephant Days and Nights - 10 Years with the Asian Elephant Raman Sukumar Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: Rs 375

Deliverance by detention

Conservation strategy stands on a fork in the road: one leads to animal protection in their natural habitats, or sanctuaries; the other to …

The see-saw approach

The Central Public Works Department has banned the use of wood in its construction projects, ignoring the fact that the substitutes are more …

Caught by the horns

The closure of the Idgah abattoir gets under the skins of meat eaters in the Capital, who have turned into unwilling vegetarians

Literacy on the move

A programme to provide education to the nomadic Gujjars is showing encouraging results and also checking their exploitation

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