S&T + R&D = 8% GDP growth

High office and scientific understanding seem further apart today

Safeguarding tradition

New Malayalam book charts traditional aggro practices

Still vexed

Regulating access to biodiversity and ensuring justice for its traditional knowledge holders

Fish and rice

Water Doctors

BOOK>> HEART OF DRYNESS • by James Workman, Walker and Company • US $25

Leguminous affair

Boiled, roasted or deep fried... explore the many culinary delights of fresh pigeon peas

The rebirth of ancient wisdom

The role of dais, traditional Indian midwives, is being reevaluated as modern medicine finds their lore ideally suited to Indian conditions

Mud housing is the key

Mud's low cost and malleability makes it an ideal building material. But its use can be popularised only if such drawbacks as its …

The spirit of the sanctuary

Sacred groves - tracts of virgin forests - are vestiges of an ancient practice in which people protected a forest to avoid the wrath of its …

The other course

Traditional curative systems like ayurveda, homoeopathy, acupuncture... are being revived as alternative medicine. But in India and the Orient, …

Book review: HIV/AIDS and Traditional Medicine

Indian systems of medicine could receive a big boost if they could yield a cure for just one major disease. And, theoretically, there can be a …

Bitters for starters

A typical Bengali meal is eaten course by course. Kaushik Das Gupta shows how the tradition helps refine taste buds

Break the Deadlock

In 1995, many in India were outraged to learn that a university in the US was granted a patent to make and sell haldi (turmeric) for its wound …

Well worth it

Modifications in a traditional water harvesting system promises to augment supplies

A friendly air wave

Radio>> Indigenous People • Peru

Update

A partial success

But escape clauses weaken radical decisions taken at the recent convention on biodiversity

Rice to hamburgers

Feathers, nails, bones and blood!

Time has come for tribal medication to be revalidated

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Progress report

What's cooking?

This is for starters

Data galore on Indian science and technology, not enough analysis says, Shobhit Mahajan