"Drowned and dammed: Colonial capitalism and flood control in eastern India

Flowering of scientific research in nineteenth century Calcutta

A 30-year saga

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Billy Bragg's other riffs

Forlorn in the USA

About 12 million American families last year couldn't afford to buy food. 32 per cent of them actually experienced someone going hungry at one …

Survey: Making waves

While it is known that radio reaches about 90 per cent of India's population, what is new -- and good news -- is that it is an extremely …

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Open access to good science

Vatavaran 2003

Into its second year as the exclusive National Environment and Wildlife Film Festival of India, Vatavaran 2003 will screen seventy films on …

No entry

Looks like the executive committee of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held at Geneva in December this year, is choosy …

Eco-warriors

Even as the us goes global in its agenda to tackle religious terrorism, domestic media has started zooming in on militancy of a new kind -- eco-…

Book review: Hands around Everest

National boundaries can serve as links rather than instruments of division -- so expounds this book. Cooperation between nations, it says, is the …

Website review: http://www.inequality.org

The global divide in income, health and wealth has only widened further in this era of unregulated capitalism. And there are no signs of it being …

Transparency International Global Barometer Survey

If you had a magic wand and you could eliminate corruption from one of the following institutions, what would your first choice be? " The …

Ode to monsoon

Orissa's rain festival

USA - all love lost

Neither the World Bank nor the US and the United Nations (un) are popular around the world. While there is still some hope of the World Bank …

Shockwave over Iran

Over the years, overseas-based Persian language satellite tv broadcasters have won over the hearts of a number of Iranians. And to make matters …

Film review: The turtle people

The Turtle People is ostensibly about a fishing community in village Kolavipalayam, Kerala, that help Olive Ridley turtles. Sea turtles are an …

Webpals?

Book notice: Salim Ali's biography

Book notice: The last forests of Bangladesh

According to records, Bangladesh's forest cover has shrunk to a meagre six per cent from 20 per cent in 1927. The southern mangroves are perhaps …

Book notice: Indigenous Honeybees of the Himalayas

Nepal's native honeybees are an acknowledged vital cog in maintaining the region's biodiversity, as they naturally pollinate an assortment of …

Book review: Christopher V Hill's River of Sorrow

Imperialism is domination, says Christopher V Hill. And this domination is not just of people, but inevitably extends to "subordinating and …

Lascaux caves threatened by microbes

The Lascaux caves in France, which host fabulous prehistoric art, are being threatened by harmful microorganisms again. The invading fungus, a …