Untapped Potential

Lack of lagislation and certification undermines the potential of organic farming in India

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

Kind to Cash

A short stop motion that shows all the schemes that a human being (woman) can avil of in her lifetime.    

For whom the school bells toll?

India's education policy has only sought to alienate the students and also deepen the urban-rural divide

Straight from the puppet's mouth

Why should it matter if messages are effectively conveyed through tales, songs and plays rather than from the mouths of scientists bogged down in …

To be healthy, wealthy and wise

...activists must fight for better prevention and health education

The unaccounted wealth that leaves our shores

The Indian government invests Rs 34 lakh to educate each IIT graduate. It therefore has the moral authority to get him or her to work for the …

Imparting environmental education

What is the best approach to instil in the minds of students a lifelong respect for the environment?

People are not the planet's pollutants

The consumerist tendency of our society has resulted in the branding of population explosion as the villain in a world that has place for everyone'…

Education must boost unity, end superstition

Learning in the present social context should lay more stress on inculcating social and ethical values that would bring Indians closer to each other.

Defining environment stories

In the Western approach to stories on the environment, topics are wrapped in neat packages: from rainforests to big dams. But writing on rural …

Early education is the key to reducing birth rate

Every rupee invested on four years of primary education for girls would yield returns worth Rs 10 of investment on advertising contraceptive …

What a bad idea, Sirji!

Menageries with messages

Zoos have evolved from being mere sources of entertainment to educational centres.