Poetry born of struggle
Whether the revolutionary passion of his early verse, or the more mellow vision of his later work, Jnanpith award-winner Subhas Mukhopadhyay's …
Several Worlds, one vision
Satyajit Ray's films showed an extreme sensitivity to the natural world. Yet he was no naturalist. The people he portrayed were carefully …
A city derailed
The Calcutta tramcar system, perhaps the only eco-friendly feature in the city's ruined landscape, is heading towards extinction
If words were deeds
If a recently-held seminar on the Girl Child in the capital is any indication, her plight is not going to improve in a hurry.
The year of ecobabble
Despite numerous proclamations of eco-friendliness and a deluge of treaties, not much was done in 1993 to make fuelwood and clean water easily …
Hard-selling a fallacy
The North will stagnate, South will grow, and the multinationals, aided by World Bank ideologues, will exploit the poorer countries for their own …
Homework on global summits
Representatives of the South must pull up their socks on garnering vital data on the ongoing policy debates
All for the people
International organisations concentrating on the moral and material uplift of the underpriviledged
Requiem
It was a strong anti -adulteration law aimed at the standardising of food stuffs. Stronger industrial lobbies and vested interests helped it die …
Taken for a ride
Consumer-consciousness has yet to make a dent in the mind of the average Indian buyer. That 'consumer is the king' has remained merely a slogan …
Here we come, eco-chums!
Indigenous support systems that have been nourishing the Himalaya for centuries have become the current buzzword for progress
Coming of the know-all
The socio-ecological implications of the knowledge revolution are many and multifaceted. But the world needs a system where a 'post bi-polar' …
A disease called pollutionitis
Most of Delhi's urban elite suffer from this disease which makes them "rationally irrational". The disease is accompanied by finger-pointitis and …
A letter from a villager
A villager in Goa wants to cut a tree growing in his backyard to mend his damaged roof. But he needs to get permission from the tree officer. And …
HEADS or TAILS
A close look at the history of climate change negotiations reveals some alarmingly reckless traits in Indian policymaking
Intrepid non-learners
Indian politicians travel on public money—for what they can learn from the click of a mouse
Pariahs, no more?
Zimbabwe's urban farmers are finally being seen as answers to its development ills
Winter visitor to a cold land
Black-necked Grebe ventures into Arunachal Pradesh
Fuel for the people
Dangerous make-up
A warning against indiscriminate selling and buying in a new fad: herbal drugs
A sustainable lifestyle in the mountains
Living with the Gaddis was an environmental lesson worth learning.
Scarred by violence and fundamentalism
1992 proved the Indian women's movement needs to reassess its priorities and strategies.
Must a civilisation destroy to preserve itself?
India still has the option to preserve the poem within and the tree outside.
We need not have gone to the World Bank
India may have compromised her sovereignty over the Narmada issue
Time for Green from the ground up
The show is over. It's time to stop talking and get down to work