Dinesh Mohan

Guru with an attitude

Constructing A Dream

Just hot air

NEPAD falls short on deliverables though it is heavy on promises

"There is no fish"

The poisoning of India's rivers has left nothing for traditional fisherfolk

A disease on the rise

Asthma is extremely low in India's healthcare policy framework, especially for the poor

Did Hanuman inspire China’s Sun Wukong? In all probability yes, says B R Deepak

Prominent Sinologist talks to Down To Earth about the ancient connections between India and China via the Ramayana

Cracking the cancer code

In recent years, scientists have closed in on cancer, pinning down precisely how its hellish manifestations are caused and spread. Their findings …

Completing the great gene jigsaw

An epiphanic understanding of gene sequencing at last seems to reveal the tale of life and death

What a bloody mess

When the Ebola virus broke on April 10 this year, the scientific world went into a tizzy? It's uncontrollable, it's the big daddy of horror movies,…

Kuttanad: a case in point

Kuttanad in Malayalam means 'small town'. But the ecological devastation which human hands have wrought here is in no way small or insignificant

Backs to the wall

Kerala's backwaters are one of its most prized possessions. But they are fighting for survival today, with reclamation for the purposes of …

Coral cause

The world's seas and oceans harbour about 600 species of corals, most of which are hard put to escape human marauders. A people's initiative in …

Fallacy in figure

During the 1980s the rate of destruction of natural forests was reduced as compared to the 1970s. Most of the deforestation took place in the …

The green fences

Nobody knows what is green. Labels merely help companies to cash in on the guilt inherent in a consumer society

The confused consumer

An unaware and confused Indian consumer is groping in the dark, hoping to clutch at any green stalk of hope

Water and society

A comparison to show the difference that social organisation makes to the state of rivers and the environment

Bleak future

Climate change threatens to cause widespread ecological and economic loss in India. But policy makers and scientists give a shallow response to …

Net solutions

Restoring waterbodies and making traditional fisherfolk stakeholders in fisheries development may save this fast disappearing tribe

Rising trend

The microbes strike back

Diseases that were cheerfully believed to have been eradicated are inexplicably cropping up again in India in deadlier, drug-resistant forms

Permit regime

No truck with green

A hand in every pie

Miseries galore

Tackling The MNC Menace