History

Hotels, golf course to come up at the Victorial Falls Heritage site

Two hotels, a golf course and 450 chalets will soon be there at the Victoria Falls World Heritage Site, on the fringes of one of the Africa's longest rivers, the Zambezi. The us $260-million

Publication Date:

14/12/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20061215

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Riverine Ecology, UNESCO, History, Zambia, Hotels, Rivers

Industry

Clifford Geertz purveyor of small things

In a 1995 article in The New Statesman, the anthropologist Jonathan Benthall wrote, "Clifford Geertz disappoints some colleagues because he comes up with no overarching theories.' Benthall was right or at least partly so: Geertz deliberately chose not to expound universal theories, seeking instead to find meaning in small-scale observations of simple human interaction

Publication Date:

29/11/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

History Of Science, History, Indonesia

India

West Bengal village sits on archaeological treasure

LOHAPUR'S engagement with history is renewed, almost on an everyday basis. Whenever a patch of land is dug across a 16-sq km stretch in this tiny village in Birbhum district of West Bengal, villagers

Publication Date:

14/11/2006

Author(s): Archita Bhatta

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Archaeological Survey Of India (ASI), History, India, West Bengal, Birbhum

Energy

Field work stalled after Australia stopped funding for Wollemi National Park

Funding

Publication Date:

14/11/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Finance, Media, History, Australia

Climate Change

A new look at the first great civilisations

The early civilisations have conventionally been regarded as products of human ingenuity. Of course, favourable geographical conditions also made a difference. But they just might be fortuitous

Publication Date:

14/10/2006

Author(s): Kirtiman Awasthi

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Climate Change, Research, History, Global, Rainfall Pattern

India