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 …

In medias res: Media coverage of WFS

Media coverage of the just-concluded World Social Forum was vast. About 200 media organisations landed up to report wsf or beam it to all ends of …

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 …

Centuries before Americas hosted sophisticated agrarian civilisations

Book >> 1491, New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus by Charles C Mann Vintage Books 2006

Inviting disaster

DUI PAATAN KE BEECH MEIN (BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP RIVER) A documentary by Arvind Sinha Duration: 116 minutes

2022 too short, too far: DTE’s roundup of the year’s top stories

The best of our reportage from 2022 in one place

At the feet of poverty

ARAVALLI PAHARIAN HARIALI KI ORE VHS Written and directed by K L Manhas 35 min

Amnesty campaign

Outrageous

Useful but expensive

Toxic spray

Against slavery of a new kind

The best myth

Regeneration on reels

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Canal of woes

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First-time study: child poverty