Who cares for India today

Buttressing the Raj

What were The Royal Indian Engineering College grads really up to? A history...

Wings to soar high

A counselling initiative in Madhya Pradesh identifies interests of tribal students and facilitates their admission to institutes of higher education

Healers in arms

The conflict between allopathy and homeopathy is an old one

IPR course in school? It's silly

Promoting the study of intellectual property rights without focusing on innovation is so misplaced that it's laughable

What's going on?

Budget 2005-2006: the missing audit

Out of favour

Focus on Alphonso has resulted in neglect of native mango varieties grown in the Western Ghats, some of which are on the brink of extinction

Count the natural debt, too

On wrong wavelength

Twenty years after the Supreme Court asserted that people have a right over radio waves, community radio continues to struggle. Instead of …

Time to be different

Salvage science

Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister seeks more funds and education reforms in science sector

Outlining their rights

Cartography provides the indigenous peoples of the world another way of asserting their rights

Never too late to learn

Vernacular comics, literary primers, a newsletter called Leaves: that's the way to teach those in Asia who've never had the chance

Unconventional approach to AIDS control

Voluntary groups in Madras are taking up the onus of increasing AIDS awareness among various groups including students, blue-collar workers and …

Joy of learning can be a pain

Children fell victim to organisational inefficiency and indifference at the National Joy of Learning Festival held recently in the Capital

Learning to think green

The variety of institutions are responding to the demands of environmental education made imperative by a generation familiar with eco-degradation

Counting on origami

The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes empowers tribals with the knowledge of mathematics

Literacy on the move

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

Books teach green the fun way

Much useful and reasonably priced reading material for children, focussing on environmental issues, is available now.

Teaching children they will inherit the earth

In Nepal, camps for making children more environmentally conscious are proving increasingly popular. And in many families it's the …

Building green citizens

Learning games

Educational tools need not be the prerogative of the privileged

Edusat will educate

But how?

Away from the rat race

Villagers and rural communities, warts and all, can still be places where you can regain your lost spirituality and your moral equilibrium if you …