Uttaranchal's growth push discounts long-term concerns

Parbati Barua's predicament: What kills an elephant?

On march 6, 2003 all of us came to know what Parbati Barua had done. It made sensational news: she had -- sin of sins -- killed an elephant. As …

New-found addiction: What will the government do in May 2003?

The Union budget provides cancer-stick manufacturers and sellers huge reasons to feel puffed. The excise duty on nicotine (the narcotic used to …

Shut up

Else, you'll get a legal notice

8 sister states

And a step-fatherly Centre

CDM begins to roll

Global warming doesn't sound quite right when half of India is reeling under a cold wave. We apologise. But the World Meteorological Organisation …

Reverse brain drain can be a strain

At that annual ritual called the Indian Science Congress, the Union minister of science and technology read out the prime minister's speech. It …

For 2004, an article of faith

When our designers sit down to make the year planner that comes with the year's first issue, they look through the issues of the magazine in the …

Yes, we do like the internet

But please don't make it the McDonald burger

QED. Amen

Against religion in a laboratory and science in a church

June 5, 2005

World Effrontery Day?

Wolfowitz at the door

How can the developing world bank on him?

Millennial blunder

Ecology cannot be a function of political economy

We evolved, thank god

New find confirms water-land transition, evolutionary theory

Not science

Archbishop of Canterbury strikes a blow for reason

Let us bribe Newton and Einstein

A string of corruption issues has our newspapers and TV channels all untied-up. Reliable sources admit that sales of 'sting' gadgetry are …

Can government be its own watchdog?

The Union government has finally set itself free. No longer will it have to perform the dirty, stressful and thankless task of redressing …

Puritanism will not cure AIDS

Union health minister Sushma Swaraj is brandishing a new poultice to wrap around the AIDS menace. It is a purifying prescription called '…

No more symbolism - There will be peace in Kashmir

Unfortunately, the very institutions that profess this belief are the ones blocking its realisation. Consider the recent prime ministerial visit …

My genes on your Internet

There's nothing virtual about the gene rush

Give MPs money

They will bankrupt development

Dilli chalo

A riverfront project that is just a front, sans river

Usual suspects

Forget the Internet. Welcome to roadblocks on the information route

Full colour truth

Because real issues need as much colour as celebrities on Page 3s. Correction: more

Soft 'target'

PDS' poor politic