The relation between tanks and trees

For survival of the traditional water management structures, one must understand the linkages between the tanks and trees

Discovery of India

Anil Agarwal delivers his acceptance speech for the Norman Borlaug Award 2001

Nature's forecasters

Lighting up hearts

A hospital for cardiac patients in Ahmedabad is sunlit to cheer up patients. It saves energy, too

Hanging by a thread

Weavers of renowned Ponduru khadi are abandoning the craft

Textile therapy

A handloom trader experiments with traditional medicinal herbs for dyeing garments

Beating the drought

How some villages stayed afloat even as neighbouring lands parched

Tamil Nadu's tank rehab scheme does not hold water

Government approach to restoring traditional waterbodies of Tamil Nadu doesn't hold water

Ponds for strongmen

Village heavyweights use natural farming methods

On the wild side

Residents of Garhwal swear by the taste and health benefits of a lesser known vegetable

Herbs to heal cattle

In the absence of veterinary services, traditional medical practices for treating livestock remain popular in tribal villages

Blossoms with benefits

Heti flower adds variety to cooking when few options are available just before the harvest season in Maharashtra

Clay has curative properties

Meinhard Von Gerkan on GMP's entry into India

Meinhard Von Gerkan, a partner in the German architectural firm GMP, was in Delhi recently to prospect for ventures in India, particularly in …

Historian Heather Goodall on indigenous people, water in Australia

Heather Goodall, a historian at the University of Technology, Sydney, has a special interest in Australia's indigenous people--especially their …

Baiga agriculture can solve problems that plague modern systems

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Water is wealth

Excerpts from the Statement of Shared Concern by the participants of the CSE conference on Potential of Water Harvesting: Traditions, Policies …

The secret gardens of Malabar

An English translation has been made exactly 300 years after the Hortus Malabricus was written, new, sinister designs seem to lurking behind it - …

Sea through the eyes of fisherfolk

Fishers know something about the marine environment that others don’t, says marine ecologist Divya Karnad

A herb from Garhwal

Locals may not pay much attention to Bhilmoda because of its abundance, but the herb has many traditional medicinal properties

Vale of Apatanis

Surrounded by wooded hills in Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh lies the small Apatani valley. Vikas Choudhary captures the life of …

Time to revive our traditional knowledge systems

It is time traditional knowledge systems, which were passed on orally through legends and myths, are revived so that local communities can prosper

Languishing in the cans

Films on successful technological projects and innovative government schemes have failed simply because there has been no effort to show them to …

The negotiators

Of India's 18 major rivers, 17 are inter-state. In all cases, the water is intensely fought over. In all cases, there seems no resolution. In …

Extinctions, an epic reality

The gripping non-fiction shows how reality is actually more dramatic than the imagination