Bangalore lakes leased out
Can carbon-negative be the next step?
Carbon-negative technologies sequester more carbon than they release. But experts say they cannot be a substitute for reduction of greenhouse gases
Stepsons of the Ganga
A fascinating account of the men who ply the emblematic boats of Banaras and embody its very essence
Machiavellian moves
Rajasthan's decision to bar illiterate people from contesting elections to panchayats is one more example of a state government dominating …
Real threats of virtual world
Spending too much time on the Internet is causing mental health disorders. Is India prepared to tackle the addiction?
Herbs to heal cattle
In the absence of veterinary services, traditional medical practices for treating livestock remain popular in tribal villages
Good ol' dug well
Traditional shallow wells can supply arsenic-free water. All one needs to do is install it with caution
Pilgrims discounted
Uttarakhand is still vulnerable to a disaster like last year's because of unregulated tourism
Where are rural courts?
The Gram Nyayalaya Act was passed in 2008 to make the judicial process participatory, inexpensive and accessible to rural India. But rural courts …
Ready for only tourists
Uttarakhand government has carried out rehabilitation projects only in tourist circles and ignored other areas that were hit by floods last year
Contours of inequality
Global estimates of the unmet energy needs in India have been available for some time. These only indicate whether the shoe pinches, if at all. …
Nurturing effect of pine
Pine trees have helped restore native vegetation in Sri Lanka’s Sinharaja Forest Reserve
A window for forest people
NTFPS-EP is a network working with adivasis on ecosystem conservation, advocacy and livelihoods
Outsiders in their own land
Gujarat government eyes limestone underneath land cultivated by Sikh farmers, curbs their ownership rights
Hailstorm drives farmers to suicide
Over 100 kill themselves as large tracts of crops are damaged; food prices likely to go up
Blossoms with benefits
Heti flower adds variety to cooking when few options are available just before the harvest season in Maharashtra
Rivulet resurrected in 45 days
Thousands of people working under NREGS bring a 38 km stream back from the dead in Uttar Pradesh
Devastated still
Months after disaster struck Uttarakhand, government has done little to improve people’s lives
What led to forest officer’s killing
In Andhra Pradesh, revenue department gives land to poor, forest department wants it back
Saying no to Monsanto
The Indian patent office has once again rejected the biotech seed giant’s claim for a method to produce stress-tolerant transgenic plants
Profitable exit
Reliance abandons the first public-private partnership in Metro transport. Time to revise rules
Chaotic response to calamity
The killer quake struck unexpectedly in the still of the night. Entire villages were flattened and thousands perished. Though rescue and relief …
The secret gardens of Malabar
An English translation has been made exactly 300 years after the Hortus Malabricus was written, new, sinister designs seem to lurking behind it - …
'They asked me to withdraw my court case'
P PARDHA SARADHI is tenacious. This mild-mannered professor at the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Delhi (DU) has …
Flush, but don't forget