Farmer who nearly became Jat-Mahatma

Tikait’s appeal had to do with earthiness and instinct

Ivan Illich (1926-2002)

"His thought leads out of the prison of routinized, sterile, preconceived notions"

Cooperative in spirit

Verghese Kurien, the man who made cooperatives an empowering business model

Obituary: Coluthur Gopalan (1918-2019)

Father of nutrition science in India dies in Chennai

Obituary: Amit Sengupta (1958 to 2018) was a powerful voice for health equity

His optimism and persistence will inspire generations of activists

Innovative administrator

IAS officer R Gopalakrishnan made development work for people

Remembering Vimal Bhai: The environmental activist, social justice warrior and an inspiration

Bhai was crucial in bringing institutional changes in environmentalism in India

Mr Verghese, you live on through your words

The eminent journalist was closely linked to the evolution of environment and development journalism in India

Remembering Virendra Kumar: a humanist, botanist and scholar

Associated with the Chipko movement, Kumar was a botanist with a difference. He saw elements of botany as part of natural evolution intertwined …

A recorder of history

Photographs taken by Sunil Janah have shaped representations of the Bengal famine for decades

Theoretical physicist E C G Sudarshan passes away

A professor at the University of Texas, he was nominated for Nobel Prize several times. If found true, his theory of particles travelling faster …

Fidel Castro: A champion of public health

Few would dispute the outstanding successes the Cuban healthcare system has achieved since Fidel and his comrades led the country’s …

Ashish Bose: a man who counted

India’s foremost demographer had a lively interest in a host of societal issues, specially the state of the aam admi

J Jayalalithaa: Tamil Nadu's beloved Amma

The “Iron Lady of Tamil Nadu” has managed to leave a state that is among India’s top five in social and economic indicators

A river’s worthy son

Veerbhadra Mishra dedicated his spiritual quest and scientific calling to cleaning the Ganga

Obituary: Rajendra Kr Pachauri: (20 August, 1940 - 13 February, 2020)

Failings apart, his was the scientific face of fight against climate change as well as its messianic activist face

India has to increase emissions, RK Pachauri told me

The former head of IPCC died at 79 leaving behind a trail of headlines on climate change

Obituary: Nepal's fearless crusader for environment

His field-based scientific thrust and the fearlessness with which he put forth uncomfortable truths made him stand out

Obituary: Ashish Bose, a man who counted

India’s foremost demographer had a lively interest in a host of societal issues, specially the state of the aam aadmi

B V Sreekantan (1925-2019): Bhabha protégé and institution builder

He was widely credited with establishing field stations of TIFR which subsequently became independent research centres

M G K Menon: A leader who wore many hats

Menon is known for his pioneering scientific contributions to nuclear emulsion techniques, elucidation of the properties of strange particles, …

The Earth’s Reporter

He used simple words and well-chosen moving images to show us what is wrong with the way we manage our natural resources and energy, and how we …

The passing of scientific threads

India lost two eminent scientists last fortnight. While Yash Pal was a scientific communicator par excellence, P M Bhargava laid the foundation …

The water bearer

ANNA HAZARE bids a heavy-hearted farewell to the late Vilasrao Salunkhe, better known as 'pani baba'. Salunkhe's revolutionary concept of '…

G Nammalvar, messiah of organic revolution

G Nammalvar was one of a kind, a messiah of farmers who was revered as a saint-teacher by his followers. He was an agriculture scientist, a …