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-…

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 "…

Himalayan upheavals

NATURAL PREMISES: ECOLOGY AND PEASANT LIFE IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYA 1800- 1950·Chetan Singh·Oxford University Press·New Delhi&…

Forests under threat

OXIDANT AIR POLLUTION IMPACTS IN THE MONTANE FORESTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA A CASE STUDY OF THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS·Paul R Miller, …

Coal a human history

The Insider

direction: michael mann Screenplay: Eric Roth, Michael Mann

Himalaya's human face

HIMALAYA LIFE ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD·David Zurick and P P Karan·John Hopkins University Press Baltimore and London·1999&…

"Drowned and dammed: Colonial capitalism and flood control in eastern India

Flowering of scientific research in nineteenth century Calcutta

DD social service ads preach, but rarely convert

How does public interest advertising work on Doordarshan? Even more to the point, does it work at all?

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World cup organisers criticised for "unhealthy" sponsorships

US media manufactures consent, report

Turned turtle

Anti-loggers dominate

A 30-year saga

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