Peppy periodical: Future Energy

The Maharashtra Energy Development Agency's (meda) publication meda News has now evolved into a full-fledged quarterly magazine christened Future …

Tobacco ban - Blatant blackmail

The Rajya Sabha's clearance of the tobacco bill has attracted an ad from the industry criticising the ban imposed on the sale of tobacco products …

China debunks greens

China recently released a policy document debunking environmentalists' accusations that it was exploiting the Himalayan region for the benefit of …

Book notice: Global green guide

Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development 2002/2003 The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway Earthscan Publications …

AIDS messages: tell-all, or nothing?

What do Sushma Swaraj and George W Bush have in common? A mutual contempt of condoms, for one. The us president is known to prefer spreading the …

Direct to home

Where would homeless children broadcast their view of the world? The streets, of course, says SOPAN JOSHI

Migrate they must: Janikari Jima

This booklet in Oriya, entitled We will go Informed, is predicated upon a necessity: the migration of the poor and the landless from Orissa's …

In medias res: Media coverage of WFS

Media coverage of the just-concluded World Social Forum was vast. About 200 media organisations landed up to report wsf or beam it to all ends of …

2004 diary: Kriti

Wars, communal carnages, human rights violations galore, the untrammeled march of global capitalism: 2003 was a bleak year for all yearning for a …

Scriptform: E-mail for the masses?

Bangalore-based hp Labs, one of the 7 r&d global subsidiaries of Hewlett Packard, USA, has developed 'Scriptform', a low-cost prototype device …

First-time study: child poverty

Book notice: In too deep

Women, Mining and Displacement: Report of a Pilot Study Conducted in Jharkhand

Written in stone

UK stone importers not to buy marble sourced from tiger habitats

Book Review: The Garden of their Dreams by Brian Griffith

Masked messages - Public advocacy

The motives behind public service ads are not always as transparent as the messages themselves

Amnesty campaign

Outrageous

Useful but expensive

Toxic spray

Against slavery of a new kind

The best myth

'Drop the weapon talk'

Rated X for children

Saviour of songs

Ineffective

Protected areas fail as refuge