At loggers' heads
In Hobart, Australia, environmentalists are determined to continue throughout the summer tourist season a campaign to highlight the threat -- by …
Website review: www.digitaldividenetwork.org
Information is power. So are the technologies that help access and disseminate information. There has always been a gap between those people and …
Website review: www.nandiniherbs.com
With contributions from various sections of the herbal industry, this interactive site will fill up the void in giving this sector a big boost. …
Books on rails
In Mexico City, run by the leftist Democratic Revolutionary party, a huge and unique campaign has begun to promote literacy and provide an "…
Book review: Christopher V Hill's River of Sorrow
Imperialism is domination, says Christopher V Hill. And this domination is not just of people, but inevitably extends to "subordinating and …
Online activism: internet games
Video games on the Internet no longer spell just mindless escapism for misguided kids. Many of the most popular games today also involve role-…
Anytime is ad time
Companies rely on advertising to convince people to buy things they don't need. They also use advertising to salve their easily hurt egos. Four …
Save the Nu/Salween river
China's plan to build a series of dams over southeast Asia's second largest river has evoked a strong response from environmental, human rights …
Advertisements: Flu good, no?
Avian influenza (AI) is spiralling out of control in Asia. So also is the spin being put to the disease. There was the spectacle of Thailand …
Consumer guide to prawns
Here's an interesting way to combat environmental and human rights impacts: don't annoy the consumers (who have no idea about the conditions in …
Review: Four films on climate change
Climate change. Two words which hold, between them, some of the most complex as well as vigorously debated issues of all times. Changing Climates,…
Book review: Commercial cultivation of medicinal plants
It is an obvious business risk for a farmer to give up growing conventional crops that have assured returns and start growing medicinal plants. …
Book review: Waterlines by Amita Baviskar
Rivers are wellsprings of life. They give birth to civilisations, sustain livelihoods and sometimes even trigger wars. Rivers inspire awe and …
Book review: Water: Perspectives, Issues, Concerns
This is a work of encyclopaedic scope. The subjects it deals with range from an in-depth study of the treatment of water in the Indian …
Origins of Indo-European languages
Now evolutionary biologists have jumped in where linguists fear to tread, namely the stormy question of when and where Indo-European languages …
EU legislation - The wrong note
The music industry is crying out loud against eu legislation for protecting intellectual property, complaining that it falls short of what is …
Book review: Inventing Global Ecology by Michael Lewis
In the 1950s and 1960s India used to import not only subsidised sewing needles and milk, but also wildlife conservation science from the US. …
My report is not an industry report: T S R Subramanian
The High Level Committee (HLC), constituted by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) three months ago to …
Book review: Science in Indian Media by Dilip Salwi
Indian media is not known to pay any more attention to science news than is strictly necessary. This book cites a survey conducted by Delhi-based …
Book notice: Samagra Vikas
Diverse: this word best describes the compilation. The sources from which the articles are drawn are diverse -- The Hindu, New Scientist, Span …
Website review: Stargazers' delight
http://www.science.nasa.gov - This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-maintained website should be of immense interest to space-…
'Ant'ics and antibiotics
THE EARTH DWELLERS— ADVENTURES IN THE LAND OF ANTS·Erich Hoyt·A Touchstone Book·Published by Simon and Schuster·…
For God and his country
WINGS OF FIRE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY·A P J Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari·University Press, Hyderabad·1999·pp196 Rs 200
A 'cultural' bomb?
THE MAKING OF THE INDIAN ATOMIC BOMB: SCIENCE, SECRECY AND THE POST-COLONIAL STATE·Itty Abraham·Orient Longman Limited·Rs 300
Senseless science
NONSENSE IN INDIAN SCIENCE·Dilip M Salwi · Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd, Delhi·Rs 125