Time to redress

The needs of the small farmer require attention: small tractors or animal power? Both?

65 million draught animals

What runs the small farming economy?

Foreign influence

Instead of designing a low-priced indigenous tractor, industry copies models used abroad

That's your sink

Why is fodder so expensive?

Supply from agriculture and forests is dwindling  

How consumers were won

Diminishing returns

Now what?

Rolling on

Now what?

Rolling on

Root cause

Adulteration is an effect of warped pricing

2001 onwards

A systematically careless government

Hypertension in Dhankot

Residents from Dhankot village, Haryana, believe that chronic alcohol abuse among men is stressing out families and therefore leading to …

Callous forest law

Deficient programme

Centre wants to treat anaemia with iron tablets. Can pills substitute nutritious food?

Same indifference

Why authorize it?

Indigenous civil engineers

Traditional earth diggers and masons, who mined the Bhatti area of the Aravallis for decades, dig in their heels as the Delhi administration …

What car is this anyway?

Can a pumpset metamorphose into a motor vehicle? Somewhere out there in Haryana,they call this smoke-belching, spit-and-gum contraption a Maruta

Foisting failure

Haryana's Sukhomajri village exemplifies how government intervention can ruin a successful community-based programme

A village betrayed

The people of Salehpur get a raw deal from the forest department of Haryana in return for the services rendered by them

Shame puts the cork back in liquor bottles

Campaigns by women have been successful in curbing alcoholism among their menfolk in Manipur and Andhra Pradesh, but similar efforts have failed …

Helping women irks men in Haryana district

A non-govemmental organisation attempting to help women in Haryana's and Rewari district is hampered by caste factors and male chauvinism.

Sukhomajri at the crossroads

The forest department intervenes to spoil a successful conservation programme of a Haryana village. An assement by Richard Mahapatra