Biodiversity

 Teaching people green rights

Many groups across the country are working to educate the people on the importance of the laws that govern people's rights to natural resources.

Publication Date: 
30/12/1992
Down to Earth
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Displacement, Rehabilitation, Education, Human Rights
India

 Novel approach to primary education catches on

New instruction methods have resulted in efficient primary schools in rural Andhra Pradesh, posing a challenge to the approaches adopted by the government.

Publication Date: 
14/12/1992
C Lakshmana Rao
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Rural Habitat, Children, Education, India, Andhra Pradesh
India

 Children of the earth, worshippers of nature

Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan human rights activist and peasant leader, was awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Menchu was witness to the massacre of her entire family at the hands of the Guatemalan army. In this excerpt from her testimony, Menchu des

Publication Date: 
29/11/1992
Rigoberta Menchu
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Children, Education, Human Rights, South America
Environment

 Who will help her learn?

Merely providing schools is not enough to educate the more than 197.34 million illiterate women in India. Far too often, girls have to drop out of school to help their overworked mothers. But female literacy is crucial to a nation"s development and ensuri

Publication Date: 
14/11/1992
Anil Agarwal
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Rural Habitat, Women, Children, Education, CSE
India

 Literacy as a yardstick of social health

THE LITERACY level of a country both reflects and influences its economic and social status. It also has a close bearing with a country's population growth rate. In India, the Kerala example shows

Publication Date: 
Saturday, November 14, 1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Women, Economic Development, Education, India, Kerala, Nagaland, Statistics
India

 An unconventional study of the food cycle

IT IS A daring and formidable task to synthesise the insights of social and physical anthropology, physiology, epidemiology, micro-economics and macro-economics. This has been attempted with

Publication Date: 
14/11/1992
B K Royburman
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Environment, Health, Education, India, Developing Countries, Agriculture
India

 Is ecology a constraint on female literacy?

"ONE BY one each of the girls answered my questions. What was their name and age? What do they do during the day? What do their parents do? Had they ever been to school and for how long? The children

Publication Date: 
14/11/1992
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Women, Children, Education, India, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan
India

 Vedic substitute for a modern calculator

HOW MUCH is 87265 multiplied by 32117? In our familiar method of multiplication, it will take five steps of multiplication and one step of addition to obtain the answer, apart from

Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
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Science, Education
India

 Children teach elders with play on street

Against the opulent backdrop of the WHO building in the Capital, children of the Anna Nagar slum act out on the street their problems and the solutions.

Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
Ajit Menon
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Slums, Children, Education, India, Delhi
Environment

 Defining environment stories

In the Western approach to stories on the environment, topics are wrapped in neat packages: from rainforests to big dams. But writing on rural development or women's education can also reflect concern for the environment.

Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
Derek Brown
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Environment, Rural Development, Education, Women

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