Representing realty: Artist uses language and image to explore how development disfigures

Sewage plant raises storm in temple town

Despite protests from villagers near Kerala's most famous temple town, authorities insist on locating a sewage treatment meant for Guruvayur, in …

Integrated development essential for India

Impact of Urbanisation and Industrialisation on Rural Society Edited by PS Lamba and S S Solanki . Publisher: Wiley Eastern Limited, Delhi . …

'We need technology, but on our own terms'

Nanuram Rawat was the adhyaksha of the gram sabha in Seed, one of the first gramdan villages where environmental resources have been regenerated …

Messiahs to rural folk

A few individuals are trying to bring about changes at the grassroots level through dedicated and sustained work

SELF (UN) EMPLOYMENT

Submerged by dams

Tapping the Sun

Uganda's solar electrification programme for rural areas

Digging their own grave

Extracting minerals and ornamental stone in the Aravallis - despit its environmental costs - is such a flourishing economic activity that …

Water shortage in the home of glaciers

Residents in the UP Himalaya, abundant in rivers and glaciers and covered by a piped water network, are experiencing a water shortage caused by a …

Dung magic

An investment of Rs 300 can bring electricity to every household in rural India. Humble cow dung can do this and more

A social force called water

The state is struggling to meet the rising water demand. It is time to learn from the days when people arranged their own water. In cities and in …

Picking up the tab for industrial growth

Amartya Sen right prize for the wrong work?

Sen's manner of addressing poverty issues has left many questions unanswered

THAILAND

License for livelihood

The plight of rickshaw pullers and vendors of Delhi catches the prime minister's attention

Fluorosis-hit villages caught in red tape

While more villages in UP's Unnao district are gripped by fluorosis each year, the state's ground water board remains entangled in bureaucratic …

New light on water disinfection

With a simple modification, ordinary tubelights can be used to provide clean drinking water.

A lesson in bad environmental management

The road ahead

India with its deplorable rural roads can learn a lesson from Madagascar, which has successfully implemented a decentralised system of …

Words of wisdom

The traditional knowledge of indigenous communities was for a long time viewed with scepticism. Now, the world acknowledges its significance

Riots for water

Faced with a severe drought, the Gujarat government decided to reserve water from a dam for the town of Jamnagar. Rural folk of Saurashtra …

Unexpected relief

Nobody expected farm forestry and exotics to become a major source of firewood

Green cussedness, anyone?

They did the impossible on land that held no hope

US, epicentre of unequal wealth

As the US completes 50 years of its "war on poverty", the country does not have much to celebrate, thinks JOEL BERG, an expert on …