Shallow scheme
Drinking water project peppered with flaws
Single ministry to look after watershed programmes
Cotton debate
India's green light to Bt cotton opens up a whole new can of worms
Burden of beast
Mounting economic pressures cast a dark shadow on the future of camels and their traditional breeders in Rajasthan
Toxicitea tangle
Safeguards have been erected to weed out the supplies of tea laden with high pesticide residue levels. But when governments use these benchmarks …
Fading colours
Natural dyes, now popular in the West, are yet to make it big in the Indian market, reports R V Singh (Read full article)
The revival of indigo
A school principal in Bihar revives the cultivation of the crop that symbolised the independence struggle
Colouring plants
Mythila painting is an innovative media that contain powerful messages of conservation
The vanishing lakes
There is more water than land in north Bihar. The rivers that ramble down from the Himalaya feed numerous depressions scattered all over the …