Why are pretty films on wildlife so much more interesting than no holds barred environmental documentaries?

THE world's health authorities and epidemiologists predict that India is heading pellmell for a major AIDS epidemic if preventive action is not taken urgently. But AIDS doesn't feature on the

UNLIKE many other wildlife films in which animals are painted in an impenetrable and maudlin rosy hue, Mike Pandey in his The Last Migration has been able to get good, dispassionate footage on the

The Black Death is an established phenomenon the world over, so there is no point pillorying India alone

Development can spawn curious offspring. The prospect of involving rural women in a refresher course on the importance of maintaining vegetable gardens surely qualifies as one of these. And that's

From barefoot ragpickers to rich kabariwallahs moving about in cars, the country's waste recycling industry caters to countless Indians.An attractive business proposition that most people choose to overlook, scrap Is even being imported now

ETHIOPIA, one of the oldest of farm civilisations, has been mercilessly ravaged by war and famine. Fortunately, Valiant & Khan's Treasures of Ethiopia spares the viewer the stereotypical images of

The international community is being exhorted to enforce a greenhouse regime

The patterns that diseases furrow among large sections of a population provide clues to check epidemics

But will Indian women be safe using Depo Provera?

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