Drowning In Human Excreta

Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an …

A complement, not a substitute

Cash transfer is effective only if basic services are in place

Demand unsupplied

A question of political will

Two innovative states prove PDS can be made efficient

Trouble in store

Farmer harmer

Business bites

Subverting a basic human right

A draft water policy proposes to make water an economic good

Enter the Bank

Persistent in folly

Rice and wheat fetch a secure price and subsidies on farm inputs. Coarse grains have no place in the public distribution system, although their …

Rice: the real cost

It is said the future wars would be fought over the issue of water, not land. Yet Indian government promotes rice, which consumes water, over …

Grain of truth

India's public distribution system promotes rice and wheat. These water-intensive crops require more inputs and are less nutritious as compared …

Eye on accuracy

Realisation to make meters error-free may have come late to India, but technology is making rapid strides

Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat

Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat

Counting grains

Prime Minister’s Logic

Is India ready?

Effective social schemes need more than cash transfer

Food vs fuel

Bhutan’s experiments with happiness

The idyllic Buddhist kingdom believes that peace and happiness should take preference over material growth. In a world beset by inequities and …

Public private prank

Water riddles

Rain or no rain

What about privatisation, then?

Spring in a box

A village in Maharashtra solves its water crisis by building underground boxes to tap spring water