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PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION Edited by K Sadanandan Nair and Shirley A White Publisher: Sage Publications Price: Rs 250 (hb), 145 (pb)

Comics workshop

There's a different way comics -- a mixed narrative form that uses text and images, what American cartoonist Art Spiegelmann called 'comix' -- …

Quite disturbing: Pakistan nutrition survey

The Nutrition Section of Pakistan's Planning Commission, working in collaboration with the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund,…

Hyundai: Stringent norms?

As per the auto fuel policy released this year, vehicles running in cities must meet Euro iii emission norms, apparently very stringent, by April …

Book review: Toxicity

The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future By Bruce E Johansen (Praeger Publishers, 2003)

Serious fun: The Meatrix

A pig for Neo and a bull for Morpheus -- that's The Meatrix, a Flash animation based on the blockbuster sci-fi movie The Matrix. But that is …

Website review: http://www.ileia.org

The visitors to this site need to, at the very outset, acquaint themselves with the two confusing, and, as one soon discovers, related acronyms --…

Expressly defending white asbestos

The asbestos cement industry is back on the sly with its misinformation campaign. On July 15, 2003, The Indian Express and The Financial Express …

Handy testing kit

Ever wanted to find out whether there is urea in the milk you consume or if oil of argemone has found its way in your mustard oil? Rasoi Kasauti, …

Paperless news

Scientists in the us have developed an ultra-thin electronic display that could well transform into an e-newspaper. The black and white display …

Book notice: Farmer-led Participatory Research - Cases from Western India

Centralised models of development don't work; local knowledge and traditional methods do, especially in the realms of farming and water …

Peppy periodical: Future Energy

The Maharashtra Energy Development Agency's (meda) publication meda News has now evolved into a full-fledged quarterly magazine christened Future …

Tobacco ban - Blatant blackmail

The Rajya Sabha's clearance of the tobacco bill has attracted an ad from the industry criticising the ban imposed on the sale of tobacco products …

China debunks greens

China recently released a policy document debunking environmentalists' accusations that it was exploiting the Himalayan region for the benefit of …

Book notice: Global green guide

Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development 2002/2003 The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway Earthscan Publications …

AIDS messages: tell-all, or nothing?

What do Sushma Swaraj and George W Bush have in common? A mutual contempt of condoms, for one. The us president is known to prefer spreading the …

Direct to home

Where would homeless children broadcast their view of the world? The streets, of course, says SOPAN JOSHI

Migrate they must: Janikari Jima

This booklet in Oriya, entitled We will go Informed, is predicated upon a necessity: the migration of the poor and the landless from Orissa's …

2004 diary: Kriti

Wars, communal carnages, human rights violations galore, the untrammeled march of global capitalism: 2003 was a bleak year for all yearning for a …

Scriptform: E-mail for the masses?

Bangalore-based hp Labs, one of the 7 r&d global subsidiaries of Hewlett Packard, USA, has developed 'Scriptform', a low-cost prototype device …

They write the wrongs

Daughters of sex workers run a magazine to tell their mothers’ stories  

Shades of green

Book>> The Green Pen, Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia • edited by Keya Acharya and Fredrick Noronha

Online Safe eat

Choose ecofriendly vehicles online

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