When alienation ruins

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

Tribals solve problems through self - reliance

The Budakattu Krishikara Sangha, with its emphasis on people-oriented strategies, has improved tremendously the lot of the tribals in and around …

Bullock cart in its new avatar

Ideal for carrying agricultural produce and transport in rural areas

Natural resplendence

Scientists in Dharwad, Karnataka, develop coloured cotton, organically

Villegers blueprint their own development

MYRADA moves a step forward in rural appraisal programmes, emphasising the necessity of involving villagers in their own development.

Breaking the rural barrier

The Centre for Application of Science and Technology to Rural Areas, set up in 1974, was a bold effort at bringing appropriate technology to the …

Helping children find work at home

Gramashrama, a children-based organisation in Karnataka, is trying to understand the causes of migration and prevent the exodus of youngsters …

By book or by crook..

... has been the motto of an erring plant in Karnataka. But recently, the local fisherfolk scored a victory by forcing it to agree to install an …

A lost name, a vanishing ecosystem

In the Kannada language, the word kere means a man-made or natural water tank, and the word for the numeral nine is ombhatthu , pronounced …

From miracle cures to holistic development

A doctor whose aim once was to treat poor patients, now helps Soliga tribals to assert their rights and choose their own way of development.

Anomalies galore

A survey of a World Bank-funded environment programme in Assam

Worm wonder

Vermicompost has changed fortunes of farmers in a drought-prone Karnataka district

The private eye

Water privatisation in IT capital is taking citizens for a long ride

High on Chinese demand

Rampant illegal iron ore mining in Karnataka's Bellary district

Handy copper cure

A non-governmental organisation uses the metal to purify water

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 …