"Farmers' wisdom must be on paper in era of patents"

Divide and rule

The failure of India's rural planning policies is due to the lack of understanding of human-land relationship

Inundated by colonial misconceptions

The benefits that can be derived from controlling flood waters intelligently have been wasted, largely because of wrong, archaic notions about …

Traditional cures back in vogue

Ancient health care systems such as ayurveda are gaining popularity once again as people become wary of allopathy and the hazards it involves.

Best kept sacred

Sacred groves are deteriorating at an alarming rate across the country. There is an urgent need to identify and protect these sacred woods to …

Restoring the past

A civil engineer revives an age-old system of farmers managing irrigation tanks in Tamil Nadu

Reviving nature

A professor heralds hope and greenery into a remote Orissa village to set it free from a web of untouchability, superstition, illiteracy and poverty

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कम कैलोरी और अधिक प्रोटीन वाला फल होने के कारण विदेशों में सेहत पसंद लोगों में काफी लोकप्रिय है मिश्रीकंद। माया सभ्यता के लोग ...

Taste for tradition

Home delivery services are taking traditional food everywhere. And the market is catching up too

History of rational thoughts

Efforts by rationalists to spread scientific thinking have been scuttled by those in positions of power throughout history

When minds meet

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`Ancient Indian literature displays exact knowledge of environmental phenomena'

Retired diplomat and well-known translator of ancient Sanskrit texts, Aditya Narayan Dhairyasheel Haksar recently released the reprint of his …

Yamilicious!

During her visit to Indore, Aparna Pallavi tickles her taste buds with crispy fried purple yam or garadu and discovers the health benefits of the …

Traditionally sumptuous

Multigrain food is not new. It has been part of the Indian diet since ancient times and comes in multitude of combinations

Ferment food for the gut

Almost all communities in India have festivals that revolve around stale food high on probiotics

Sweet and sticky

Easy-to-digest saathi rice is a good choice for making kheer and khichdi

Come alive with gundruk

Dried-mustard-leaves soup to beat the monsoon blues

Two worlds that never meet

Video Essay>> Dont cut my head off • by Somnath Batabyal, Matti Pohjonen, Kazimuddin Ahmed and Pradip Saha • produced in …

Gulp it down the cool way

Thambli, a decoction of herbs, and a soothing drink

Another board

Unity in diversity

Songs of leaves and rain

Documentary >> An Ode to Marang Buru directed by Ambuja Kumar Satpathy Produced by Vasundhara 56 mins

Beyond techno fixes

Vulnerable people can be agents of change, not mere recipients of assistance

When reforms ricochet

The biggest threat to Vietnam's bio-diversity comes from deforestation. In the past 25 years, the total area of natural forests has declined at …

Words of wisdom

The traditional knowledge of indigenous communities was for a long time viewed with scepticism. Now, the world acknowledges its significance