The invisible mountain

Hanuman: man, monkey or langur?

The Hindu monkey god Hanuman comes across as a mosaic of different beings

A tryst winth death

The land of the Brahmaputra recurrently reels under terrible onslaughts of a scourge

Limp target

Polio eradication targets strike a wrong note, while the WHO waxes eloquent

Inviting the plague

With all its wealth and affluence, Surat remains the least concerned about health and hygiene

'Development' vultures

"Spring's fragrant gardens wither away where the mediocre rules" -- Rabindranath Tagore

Kerosene slips through greasy palms

Authorities tread on slippery ground trying to resolve the fuel crisis in Mysore

Piloting disaster

Grass is greener

Growing grass in the desert of Rajasthan would improve the economy

Shaken, but not stirred

Despite several high intensity earthquakes, India is yet to chalk out a seismic policy

The lot of a woman

The fairer sex has not benefitted as much as men from socio-economic progress

Small change

The Union budget 1999-2000 does not give enough impetus to the environment sector

Humans may follow

A brave GNU world

The free software movement needs both bark and byte

The end of art

...as 'they' know it. Documenta 11 diffuses the boundary between politics and aesthetics

Two-leg safari

Babies can tell nice guys

I don’t want my fingerprints taken

Resisting biometric data  

Distance between Earth and Sun

Measure it yourself during transit of Venus this year

Copycats in nature

Jungle babblers feast while bulbuls imitate their hunting style

Road to chaos

The beginning of uncontrolled consumerism is the end of a planned city

A weed maligned

A fearsome weed in the Rann of Kutch is hardly, as is feared, sucking the land to death

Not so bitter

Fears of neem patenting by Western MNCs are blown out of proportion

The future folding into itself

It's a cow's life

Cattle in western Rajasthan struggle for survival as pastures continue to shrink