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 …

Website review: http://www.yaw.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/index.html

This web site is the brainchild of UK scientists, who have hit upon an effective method to counter the controversy surrounding the names of the …

Out for political mileage

The recent events in the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Kerala has had an impact on the state government. Why else would it crank up its …

Satirist Dario Fo sued

Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright Dario Fo has been sued for defaming Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in his new satire The Two-…

Website review: http://earthtrends.wri.org/

A must-bookmark site for anyone interested in environmental and development issues. It offers up-to-date facts and figures as well as analyses 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 …

Online activism: internet games

Video games on the Internet no longer spell just mindless escapism for misguided kids. Many of the most popular games today also involve role-…

Anytime is ad time

Companies rely on advertising to convince people to buy things they don't need. They also use advertising to salve their easily hurt egos. Four …

Save the Nu/Salween river

China's plan to build a series of dams over southeast Asia's second largest river has evoked a strong response from environmental, human rights …

DD social service ads preach, but rarely convert

How does public interest advertising work on Doordarshan? Even more to the point, does it work at all?

The enemy within

>> All About Bacteria, by Ravi Mantha, Harper Collins, Rs 299

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Book review: Deep and detailed

Indian Estuaries S Z Qasim Allied Publishers Pvt Limited, Delhi p420

I drink cola, therefore I am?

Film review: Massacre of the innocents

The Killing Fields: Orissa's Appalling Turtle Crisis, produced by Shekar Dattatri

Water, water everywhere

Play bandit

Not banal

Don't take it seriously

A damp squib

Money bags be damned

Chronicles of change

An industrialised business

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