The road ahead
India with its deplorable rural roads can learn a lesson from Madagascar, which has successfully implemented a decentralised system of …
Dussehri's entrepreneurs
Village women emerge as successful entrepreneurs thanks to NEED an organisation with a difference
Strings attached
Centre's purpose of reserving 50 per cent seats for women in panchayat elections defeated by puppet candidates
Bitter returns of a bumper harvest
Remains of the day
Vaccine woes continue
More arsenic
Exactly how widespread is the presence of poisonous arsenic in the groundwater that Indians drink? In Delhi, a doctor's phone call propels Down …
Camel Yatra
Rajasthan's camel population has reduced dramatically during the last ten years. The Pali, Rajasthan-based non-governmental organisation Lokhit-…
Spoils of local bodies
Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh are about money and pelf
Chandauli, Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh
A fighting chance
One man's dedication transformed the degraded, deforested land of his village
Fever stalks UP
Battling Japanese encephalitis virus, Gorakhpur now has a new enemy: enterovirus
Chipko: an unfinished mission
In 20 years, Chipko has acquired many facets, primarily as a conservation endeavour by the poor, a struggle for local control of natural …
Orphaned by apathy
Hidden from the outside world, this is the plight of the Van Taungiyas. They were hired during the British rule as resident labourers to plant …
Contract killers
Deadlocked in Aligarh
On the one hand: potholed roads, poor sewage systems, numerous small scale industries, nightmarish working conditions. On the other: clueless …
Disconnect
Today, it is accepted that farm mechanisation is an unavoidable imperative. For productivity must be increased. But -- given the majority of …
Children of a lesser State
A rare killer disease, Japanese encephalitis, has been annually and invariably breaking out in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. This year, so far, 3,…
Rural employment guarantee scheme does not work as envisaged
Just a lament
People's initiatives
Orissa and UP villages once again prove that people are better managers of natural resources than today's obdurate governments
Road maze
The controversy around the Kandi road through the Corbett Tiger Reserve
Dust storm and mist
Why a pleasant autumn morning turned grimy for Savvy Soumya Misra
A thin green coating
No check on performance of green-rated buildings; developers pocket government incentives
Twice Unlucky
In 1962, it was the Indo-Chinese war. Now it is the creation of the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve. Once again, the Bhotiyas, who inhabit the …