Book review: Healthy herbs
Quality of Standards of Indian Medicinal Plants, Volume 1, Published by ICMR, 2003 Rs 600
Anti-activism law
The ultra-conservative American Legislative Exchange Council is championing a new law that will endanger activists supporting environmental, …
Russia: Old habits die hard
Filmmaker Sergei Klado and TV journalist Irina Malikova have won Russia's first-ever human rights film award for "The Lizard Effect", which …
Chernobyl: Apathy kills
Secret police documents released in Ukraine reveal the Chernobyl nuclear plant faced problems even before it exploded in 1986 - the world's worst …
Bold strokes of pain - children depict the Muthanga episode
In these days of global and domestic wars, to which many grown-ups respond by simply shrugging their shoulders cynically, children react more …
Ultimate reality TV
Forget Survivor and Fear Factor. Thanks to embedded media you can now watch and read about the exploits of your favourite journalist in the midst …
Scientific research - Mutual admiration cycle
Scientists seeking the spotlight are adversely impacting the quality of scientific research, says a recent article in Nature magazine. Scientists …
Iraq war: Shifty stance
US-based magazine Editor and Publisher surveys of us newspaper editorials show that a majority of the top newspapers oppose any attack on Iraq …
Word wars: Language copyright
It's becoming harder to exercise one's freedom of expression, even in the land of liberty. When at & t used the phrase "freedom of expression" in …
SUV ads: Dangerous city animals
If an alligator could drive, what vehicle would it choose to go to a party? None other than the Tata Safari.The query in the latest Tata Safari …
NYT op-ed: Rift over green policy?
On January 12, 2004, the New York Times carried an op-ed article by former us Environment Protection Agency administrator Christie Todd Whitman. …
Independent initiative: Film festival
'Quotes from the Earth' is an independent festival of films on the environment. A unique event in that it is the first time that such a festival …
Iraq in the unconscious
'Embedded' -- as in reporters assigned to accompany military units during the Iraq war -- beat out 'blog' and 'SARS' as the top word of 2003, …
Book review: Edison's Eve by Gaby Wood
After he was done with the phonograph and the electric bulb, the American scientist Thomas Alva Edison focused his attention on a living doll …
Unknown agencies behind medical journals
Medical journals are the bibles of the healing profession. They command peer respect, and possess immense reach among doctors. But, as the uk-…
Forlorn in the USA
About 12 million American families last year couldn't afford to buy food. 32 per cent of them actually experienced someone going hungry at one …
Vatavaran 2003
Into its second year as the exclusive National Environment and Wildlife Film Festival of India, Vatavaran 2003 will screen seventy films on …
No entry
Looks like the executive committee of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held at Geneva in December this year, is choosy …
Eco-warriors
Even as the us goes global in its agenda to tackle religious terrorism, domestic media has started zooming in on militancy of a new kind -- eco-…
Book review: Hands around Everest
National boundaries can serve as links rather than instruments of division -- so expounds this book. Cooperation between nations, it says, is the …
Website review: http://www.inequality.org
The global divide in income, health and wealth has only widened further in this era of unregulated capitalism. And there are no signs of it being …
Transparency International Global Barometer Survey
If you had a magic wand and you could eliminate corruption from one of the following institutions, what would your first choice be? " The …
USA - all love lost
Neither the World Bank nor the US and the United Nations (un) are popular around the world. While there is still some hope of the World Bank …
Shockwave over Iran
Over the years, overseas-based Persian language satellite tv broadcasters have won over the hearts of a number of Iranians. And to make matters …
Film review: The turtle people
The Turtle People is ostensibly about a fishing community in village Kolavipalayam, Kerala, that help Olive Ridley turtles. Sea turtles are an …