Farmers' long march to the city

A cash-strapped Chinese government is trying to prevent unpaid farmers from moving to the cities in search of more money.

DENMARK

People collect rainwater without any support from the government. This saves the avoidable overuse of drinking water

The value of a raindrop

Rainwater is as usable to the industrialised North as to the underdeveloped South. As important to the poor, rural household as to the gardens …

Energy wise, resource foolish

Most eco-friendly claims of Indira Paryavaran Bhawan are hogwash

Whose flat is it anyway

Resettlement of slum dwellers remains confined to political agenda

Lighting up hearts

A hospital for cardiac patients in Ahmedabad is sunlit to cheer up patients. It saves energy, too

Playing with sea

Flouting laws, over 90 hotels have mushroomed on what once was a pristine beach in West Bengal

The jigged jaw Puzzle

A new fossils throws open the debate on Homo erectus

In Focus

Luna's law

The discovery of water will make it possible to set up a colony on the Moon. But will there be a repeat of the East India Company?

The colour my village was

A French artist has attempted to recreate pre-industrial systems of land management through his paintings. Has any Indian painter tried to do …

Lavasa accepts green riders, finally

It had challenged the conditions, saying it would amount to guilt  

Stepsons of the Ganga

A fascinating account of the men who ply the emblematic boats of Banaras and embody its very essence

Dilli's world class pretensions exposed

At the outset, I wish to express my profound sense of shock and sadness at Sunita Narain’s unfortunate accident. I continue to pray and …

A thin green coating

No check on performance of green-rated buildings; developers pocket government incentives

Maharashtra soft on Lavasa?

Yet to implement environment ministry’s order on the project

‘Modern buildings cannot breathe’

Kolkata-based architect Laurent Fournier tells how ceilings can float and why bamboo-reed-mud make more sense than brick-concrete-steel

A social force called water

The state is struggling to meet the rising water demand. It is time to learn from the days when people arranged their own water. In cities and in …

‘My mentor Laurie Baker’

BENNY KURIAKOSE began his architecture career in 1984. He was one of the privileged few who worked under the tutelage of Laurie Baker which …

Greenest of all

Model building design that helps save energy and money by exploiting the sun’s movement

Familia risks

Greenhorn wisdom

Forest protection in a Midnapore village has created prosperity - and local heroes

Arctic without ice

Why the cheetah may never come back to India?

The year India became independent it also lost all its cheetahs. In 1947, India's last two Asiatic Cheetahs were shot dead in erstwhile princely …

Meet the Baigas

Baigas are a central Indian tribe who recently received habitat rights under the Forest Rights Act