Land use can be changed

Polluted groundwater cannot

A patent row

Can the public sector take responsibility to develop drugs for neglected diseases?

If bird flu arrives, what will India do?

India is a hotbed not only of strange diseases but of stranger disease surveillance and control institutions. Every year, known and unknown …

The virtual reality of being Indian

The remoteness of 190 villages in Orissa's undivided Koraput district is an elegy on governance. Over five decades, living in islands inside huge …

As press freedom continues to struggle in Kenya, alternatives keep hope alive

As we mark World Press Freedom Day 2021, let us remember that 2020 was terrible for the press in many parts of the world.

Stagnation as a culture

WATER is for flowing. When made to stagnate, it buzzes deafeningly of a culture of deliberate ignorance. Look at the misfortune of the people of …

Large promises

Prime Minister Vajpayee is terribly interested in rural development these days. On his birthday he inaugurated Swajaldhara, a nation-wide water …

An ad a day will keep voters away

How bizarre can a government policy decision get? India's first national policy on resettlement and rehabilitation for people affected by …

India shining meets Hindutva

Uma Bharti is getting serious. The newly elected chief minister of Madhya Pradesh (MP) has unleashed a development agenda built around the 'cow …

Methane matters

But surely not more then carbon dioxide?

Veerappan is dead

Long live the other Veerappans?

The waste of nations

There is a seamier aspect to the outsourcing boom: waste

The 'Right to recall'

Palavika Patel, the former president of Anuppur municipality in Madhya Pradesh, India and Gray Davis, former governor of California, usa are two …

A thing of beauty

It is a wonder! The amount of mudslinging the Taj Mahal provokes, it is surely impossible for this matchless mound of white marble to remain …

True growth is about overcoming hard challenges

IN THE developed world, conducting business today is also about being environmentally accountable. Governments have imposed stringent regulatory …

4th major oil shock in 30 years

No let-up in fossil fuel consumption. Why?

300 dead, and counting

Andhra Pradesh is a watershed for agriculture in post-independent India. For the government

The private eye

Water privatisation in IT capital is taking citizens for a long ride

Will the Bodoland council follow the beaten track?

A concept that did not click in the hills of the Northeast has now been prescribed for the plains of the region. On December 1, the Union …

Lava-ka-Baas: The blame game

When one contests the dominant, it is of utmost importance that all actions and their outcome be above doubt. There isn't the faintest margin of …

Rain check

The column width dedicated to rain in the mainstream print media has hit an all-time high. A few days ago, television news reporters with that …

If projects are for people

Then why are their voices being muffled?

Duty free

Uttar Pradesh can't deliver vaccines to its children. But it wants to import vaccine

After 26/7

Mumbai needs to grapple with real questions

The shadow of a calamity

Among disasters, drought is the easiest to predict and manage. The Indian Meteorological Department's forecast of a "below normal" monsoon in …