What's in your honey?

Ayurveda prescribes it for a range of ailments. People eat it for rejuvenation and boosting immunity. An Indian homemaker’s kitchen shelf …

1,620.361 ha of discontent

Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are …

Universal health scare

The country’s planners are debating how to provide healthcare to all. In a drastic shift from the 65-year-old public health system, the …

Secretive tribunals, hidden damages

Canadian academic Gus Van Harten is well known for his efforts to reform the global investment treaty regime through his research papers, …

India’s many investment treaties make it vulnerable

Senior international lawyer Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, who heads the investment programme of the International Institute on Sustainable …

The naive insider

Book>> The Secret History of the American Empire Economic Hit Men, Jackals and the Truth about Global Corporations by Jonathan Perkins …

Indian farmers can take on the multinationals

Sharad Joshi, the well-known, controversial farm leader from Maharashtra, outlines a new strategy for agriculture.

We need global regulation for corporations

Eva Joly, EU parliamentarian from the French Green Party, is tipped to be the Presidential candidate of the Greens in the 2012 French …

Dilip Cherian on lobbying mechanisms

PRADIP SAHA talks to DILIP CHERIAN, founder and consulting partner of image management firm Perfect Relations, about the clash between …

Seeds of Strife

The Seed Bill takes away states’ power to regulate seed prices, could lead to Centre-state confrontation

Breach of trust

The world’s premier rice research institute tilts towards intellectual property rights

Brickbats for compulsory licences

US criticises India and BRIC group for strengthening provisions on life-saving medicines

A can of worms

Book>> Brands Under Fire edited by Ivan Arthur and Kurien Mathews Penguin Books Price Rs 499

Choking access to drugs

Drug prices are likely to increase as rich countries and their pharma companies squeeze Indian generics out of the market. How can India’s …

Justice league for people’s rights

In June 1979, an innovation in the field of law and politics came about in the form of Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal. The idea behind it is …

From the blurbs

Business as usual

Innovation is tricky business

Oxfam raises voice against sportswear production in Asia

All TALK, VERY LITTLE ACTION

Apple makes them cry

Pledge>> Computers • China

Political Economy Research Institute lists top 100 polluters in the US

Greenwash

Forward block

Farmer couple brings Monsanto to its knees