A look at the future

There is, therefore, no dearth of opportunities that can and should be seized to get rid of poverty and illiteracy, improve living standards, and …

Quenching parched throats

Solutions do not come easy. However, there are ways to avoid a bigger crisis: give water back to the people and rediscover the water harvesting …

No water just woes

Despite numerous schemes, financial allocations and "election-time" promises, drinking water is still a scarce commodity. Public participation …

Faucets of the problem

Once known as the land of magic, India amazed the west with the trick of the bottomless pitcher. The magician would fill countless containers …

CYBERBABU OF HYDERABAD

Chandrababu Naidu ia known more for his obsession with technology and computers. Little is known about his watershed mission

Japan at cross roads

If there is one country that has done quite well for itself in managing the natural environment throughout its history, it is Japan. But the run …

Media hype

- E V V BHASKARA RAO Director, National Research Centre for Cashew, Puttur, Karnataka says, in his paper circulated by the pesticide association,…

Identity crisis

Rightwing parties provide an illusion of certainty: the one thing that many Europeans reeling under new pressures are hungrily groping for

CNG Verdict: A Legal Debate

No matter how one looks at the Supreme Court's April 5 ruling on air pollution in Delhi, it is undoubtedly a milestone in Indian judicial history.…

2008 A lunar odyssey

From a pariah after Pokhran II to scientific self esteem, India raced its way to the moon. Archita Bhatta tracked the nation's voyage to find …

EDRIVEN

Electric and hybrid vehicles are gaining a foothold because they are cheap and clean. But batteries are either expensive or short-lived. Their …

Will the Aral Sea ever come back?

"Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling …

Wild & fragile

The Western Ghats in the south of India have forests which are, for some plant species, their exclusive home on this earth. No wonder then, that …

Promises to keep

With the 1996 general elections just around the corner, the nation's premier political parties are back to making elaborate 'green' promises. But …

Catch me a colossus

Catching Veerappan, who amuses himself upsetting the government cart, is like trying to cage a titan. The State is in no position to meet his …

The Method Behind The Madness

When the official system learns to loot the official treasury, it also targets the natural estate, the biggest property of the modern state. Good …

The power game

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have become increasingly influential in the past 50 years. Awareness of human rights and social and …

Waters of life

Tarun Bharat Sangh of Alwar is well-known for its work on reviving traditions of waterharvesting. But few know about the economic advantages of …

Ranidhera Bypass Story

Panchayat Raj Half a cheer for democracy

There is a great push to make panchayats the fulcrum of rural development in India. But 16 years after the third tier of government was created, …

Caravan to disaster

A tinge of green

Issues relating to the environment, though not on top of the agenda, did make their presence felt in the just-concluded assembly elections.

The four pillars of non-conventional energy

After initial success in deriving energy from water, sun, wind and biomass, India is poised for a great leap in making these the energy sources …

Mosquitoes storm the desert

A cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan has its source in the Indira Gandhi Canal

How effective is CITES?