A modern Mary Shelley
New-look farming fumbles to an erratic start
The Planning Commission is embarking on a new approach to agriculture planning. But state governments and the finance ministry are reluctant to …
Fiscal fitness
While commercial vehicle operators appeal to the Supreme Court to review its order on the phase-out of 15-year old vehicles, the Delhi government …
We create jobs-for the US
Modi government still has no clear strategy for creating employment for the hordes of the jobless young in India
The root cause
50 years of dropping catches
The boat people
Thousands of people in Bihar are trapped between the Kosi and its embankments. They have been suffering for decades. But the state government is …
New Nepal
The country struggles with ways to use its diverse ecology in finalising new states
For the record
The wisdom of the unlettered
Locating the State
In September 2004, Down To Earth carried a two-part editorial on the failure of the State to deliver basic services. In the September 15, 2004 …
Bicycles pave the way
Automobiles were not the harbingers of good roads—at least not in USA
Neemi's water conference
Jal biradari launches movement to drought-proof villages
The world the slaves built
After the recent earthquake, Haiti is depicted as a basket case. It was not always so
Is social sector revenue or capital expenditure?
Blood on the Internet
Governments are censoring digital content on the ground that it infringes intellectual property rights or offends people. Can they be stopped?
Caspian tigers may not be extinct
The Ice Story
Amit Shanker talks about a random photograph that helped him reveal how Americans kept British cool.
Annoying the US, our way
Despite close cooperation with American enforcement officials, US unhappy with India’s report card
The Microsoft way
Wherein an Indian firm using pirated Microsoft software here is sued in the US by California state for using unfair trade advantage
Looming threat of a secretive trade pact
Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will extend restrictive intellectual property laws globally
Guar mine
Farmers in Rajasthan make big bucks as shale gas rush boosts demand for little-known cluster bean
Brown oil and silvery sheen
DAHR JAMAIL visited Louisiana fisheries on harvest day but found the catch sordid
Menacing US diplomacy
Specialist attachés are strenuously pushing maximalist intellectual property rules worldwide
Myriad gains, we all lose
The US appeals court has upheld the patents for isolated human genes, ignoring scientists’ warning that it would obstruct vital research …