The wizards of IT

More than infrastructure, Indian cities need real politics

A question of control

Karnataka's new panchayati raj law has sparked a debate, with the Congress government saying it gives the people more power and opposition …

Who'll bell the cats?

Bellary in Karnataka, targeted by industrial houses for 'development', death and devastation, needs an organised resistance to the mayhem

Sound and fury

Monsanto talks too much. Misinformed activists rush in to burn fields in protest against the company. And India's government authorities, sitting …

Silver iodide lining

Cloud seeding is a safe but improbable method to enhance rains

Deja vu

Coal based thermal power plants come back to haunt villages in Udupi district, Karnataka

Politics of sanitation

Toilet rule fails in Karnataka panchayats

Organic chemistry

Hollagaru farmers reap rich dividends by going organic

Shifting pains

Karnataka gets jitters as Goa clamps down

Whre science and tradition join hands

The Gloria Land farm in Pondicherry and another run by a couple in Karnataka, show natural inputs can effectively replace factory produced …

When alienation ruins

Sandalwood smuggling, epitomised by Veerappan, has become a collective phenomenon involving entire villages, which even the ban on sandalwood …

Stop trade

Soligas harvested forest produce. For them, it was a sustainable business. Then, irrationally, government moved to

Gunchidharu

Kandikere's village body manages scarce water

A hurried job

Karnataka government’s survey to estimate the scale of endosulfan tragedy is a half-hearted attempt

Complementarity begets productivity

ORGANIC farming technologies involve adaptation to local environments. Continuing the series on organic farming (See Down To Earth, November 30, …

Farmers take on multinationals

Small farmers protesting the monopoly of multinationals over the world's food resources take to the streets in Bangalore.

Less fuel, less smoke but more jaggery

Sugarcane farmers in rural Karnataka are making jaggery using an efficient and smoke-free stove designed and promoted by a school headmaster.

Green poetry

On October 15, 2003, the Prime Minister (PM) attended the first meeting of the new all-powerful Indian Wildlife Board. He gave a virtuoso …

How Karnataka manages its faeces

Thirty years after banning manual scavenging under the Night Soil Carrying System Abolition Act, Karnataka is still a fair way away from flushing …

The Shetty farm model

Engineer couple try out rainfed farming

Deep Concerns

Environmental groups wage legal war to contain mining operations in Karnataka's Kudremukh National Park

Stop being airtight

Community radio network is a must to ensure development

Thread less in 2005

Why weavers in Belgaum, Karnataka, can not go to market

The Bandipur-Brazil corridor

In Bandipur: dung sold at Rs 3,000 a lorry load.In Brazil: a ravaged coffee crop. Asks nitin sethi : what's the relation?

Fruits of doing nothing

Two young farmers of Karnataka prosper by overcoming tiller instinct