Film review Birth In The Squatting Position

Films>> Birth in the Squatting Position by Polymorph Films 1979 (10 mins, Brazil) The business of being born by Abby Epstein (83 mins, USA) …

Uncelebrated entrepreneurs

Book Digest: Tales of tradition from Himalayas, cultural influences in COVID-19 world and more

Prospects of fossil-free future to politics of climate change, DTE tracks new books on environment and development from leading authors  

Rotterdam Convention: no new agenda for pesticides at chemical review panel meet

Signals under-utilisation of the subsidiary body of Rotterdam Convention

Bok review: Heady stuff

Conservation and Society by Kamaljit S Bawa

Film review: A planet of hope

Kalahandi: A Planet of Herbs / Director: Amarendra Kishore / 28 minutes / English/Hindi

Cocooned in secrecy

Exposing America's toxic burden

Pesticides Action Network's report says Americans carry high pesticide levels in their bodies

Stars' tantrums on cola controversy

Poor India speaks

book>> Caterpillar and the Mahua Flower, Tremors in India's Mining Fields edited by Rakesh Kalshian Panos South Asia New Delhi 2007

Review of film 'Wasted'

Film>> Wasted Swecha Productions directed by Anshul Uniyal and Vimalendu Jha 16 minutes

News Snippets

Zyprexa, of pharma major Elli Lilly, promoted for off-label uses

Global warming's point of no return

Book>> The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock Allen Lane, London 2006

Beyond protected areas: This new book explores how India's conservation scene turned inclusionary

‘At the Feet of Living Things’ journals experiences of ecologists who practise a collaborative and socio-ecologically sensitive …

Book Digest: Tracing world order from 2008 financial crisis to COVID-19, Shaheen Bagh and more

From stories of climate crisis to women-led movement for equal rights, DTE tracks new, contemporary books on environment and development from …

Book review: Seeds of Contention

The good thing about this book is that it makes a clear attempt to scale down the shrill rhetoric of the gm debate. The sharp language and …

Radiation talk

Are mobile phones safe?

Piecing together problems with conservation in India

Documentaries>> The Great Indian Tiger Crisis directed by Arindam Mitra and Chandramohan Puppala, producer, Arindam Mitra 77 mins Tiger The …

Issues in privatisation and commercialisation of water

Book>> Water: Private, Limited - Issues in Privatisation, Corporation and Commercialisation of Water Sector in India by Gaurav Dwivedi, …

How much should a person consume?

Book>> How Much Should A Person Consume, Thinking Through The Environment by Ramachandra Guha Permanent Black New Delhi, 2006

New guidelines to help scientists communicate effectively

Book review of "Environmentality: Technologies of government and the making of subjects"

Book>> Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the making of Subjects by Arun Agrawal Oxford University Press, Delhi 2006

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Bt: Acquiring shades of grey