Navara, the rice that cures

Bitters for starters

A typical Bengali meal is eaten course by course. Kaushik Das Gupta shows how the tradition helps refine taste buds

Ritual ease

In their own language

Spells of sleep

Humans did not always sleep eight hours

A shy killer

Contrary to popular perception of being savage, dhole wild dogs are quite shy

An amla a day

Keeps the doctor away

Simply creative

General principles of architecture are imaginatively applied to create a green building in Gurgaon

Democracy or dependance

Will the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) be able to deliver on its promises?

The drought food

The ker plant signifies drought to people in the desert. It also provides food to survive on

Venice is sinking

Scientists at last find concrete proof - an eighteenth-century painting

Silver iodide lining

Cloud seeding is a safe but improbable method to enhance rains

Balangir's distressed migrants

From a resource-rich area to a metaphor for poverty, the Balangir district of Orissa has covered a long distance. Plausibly, it is this journey …

Cutting out waste

The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has recently initiated ecofriendly pilot projects at its Bangalore aircraft division, which will not only …

A day with Shibu Karmakar

Nitin Shethi learns more than he had reckoned, from local wisdom

The face of extinction

Species extinction is real, and not a scare. But the solutions conservationsists provide are simplistic and even more scary

A fish called hilsa

The population of Bangladesh's national fish is rapidly dwindling in local rivers

Running the show

Women effect a remarkable change in two districts of backward Bundelkhand

Herb dealers

In Himachal Pradesh's Kullu district is the Great Himalayan National Park. An eco-development project meant to benefit people of Tirthan and …

With a bucket and a plastic bag

An easy and public way to monitor air pollution that's also cheap in India

Catch the prey

To count the tiger

No chapattis

For some young children, wheat is like poison

The rural weather department

Folklore guides farmers about droughts and rains

Tracking India's wealth

India has come out with maps of its biodiversity-rich regions, one of the first countries to do so in the world. It was the fruit of a five-year …

In Troubled Waters

In coastal Kerala, rice cultivation is alternated with prawn farming. The method requires no fertilisers or pesticides. But many farmers in the …