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Why bees are disappearing
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I’m not a big fan of bees. I’ve been stung a few times and having a beehive in my garden […]
A Tribute to Mandela
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On 5th December 2013, the world mourned the passing away of one of the most iconic leaders in recent times. […]
Light in a Bottle
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Everyone loves innovative ideas. And simpler, the better. I came across an advertizement on the Internet which I thought was […]
Birds of Paradise
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This is a trailer from a documentary being made by the Cornell University, and is itself part of a larger […]
Learning from Movies
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When the dastardly incident involving a 23 year old female student in Delhi took place in December of 2011, there […]
Man and Woman – forever distinct?
0This is a December few of us will forget. Delhi-ites, Indians and people across the world waited with anxiety and […]
Farming the Gandhian Way
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Not many of us would have heard of Bhaskar Save but the world certainly has, even to the extent of […]
Collecting Lost Heritage
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“Can you say among a hundred people who is the most important? Everyone has his own importance. So, I find, […]
FDI In Retail and Political Decision Making
0The decision of the Government of India to bring in foreign companies to retail has generated much heat, controversy and […]
Corruption and Discipline
0We are witnessing today two interesting phenomena. In India, unbridled corruption, and in another Asiatic nation, Japan, exemplary manifestation of […]
Pride without Prejudice
0The Commonwealth Games came and went. Such a hue and cry took place before the Games and surely there will […]
The Taj Crisis
0There’s always something going on in this country… good, bad, ugly. In that respect one is always assured a subject […]
Sulabh – A Revolution like No Other
0In 1967, 25 year old Bindeshwar Pathak had missed getting a First Class that would have landed him a lecturer’s […]
No Piggy Bank for these Children
0An effort pioneered in India to organise a formal bank for street children and run by children themselves is now […]
A Task for Everyone
0It is common for Indian businessmen to complain of the slowness of procedures in India. Equally, most citizens complain of […]
A Clothes-line from Cities to the Country
0Drought in some parts of the country, notably Rajasthan and Gujarat, made big news in the months preceding the monsoon. […]
Piecing the Puzzle
0In an article in the Deccan Chronicle (6th January, 2010), the author M.S. Swaminathan expressed his view that “only science […]
Water Harvesting – The Silent Crusaders
0Drought in some parts of the country, notably Rajasthan and Gujarat, made big news in the months preceding the monsoon. […]
The First Step
1Not a single day this year has gone by without the newspapers reporting on rapes, murders, robberies, scams, political turmoils. […]
The Busy, Busy Bus
0“Doorstep” is the story of how a small individual initiative has blossomed into a mini movement. Begun in Mumbai in […]
Staring Down Droughts
0In just seven years, with a modest one-time investment, BAIF, Dharwad (Karnataka) has lifted 10,000 people to good lives. It […]
The Greatest Show on Earth
1Recently an article appeared in the New York Times commenting on the “greatest show on earth” – the Indian elections. […]
A Learning Place as Home
1Every evening between 4 and 8 o’clock, Kamalam, Kannan and their little son surrender their house to 150 children who […]
Because, He Saw Them Standing There…
1Anuradha Goburdhun Bakhshi says she is paying back a debt to India. But that is strange accounting. She hardly owes […]
Sage Advice
0In the Shanti Parva of the Mahabharata, the wise grandsire Bhishma gives a last lesson in administration and polity to […]
Bridging the Gap
0Frequently, when we despair of where India is at the moment we do one of these three things: first we […]
India’s Pride
2In different forms of the media, in a single week, this is what was expressed in various contexts: “India’s Picasso” […]
A Hero Lives On
0For decades donors like the World Bank and the Governments of Japan and Germany had waited with millions of dollars […]
Young Guns
0Recently, the ruling government in India inducted some fresh faces into the cabinet of which there were some celebrated more […]
