India

India

From beer to recombinant DNA

...or how the ethical minefield of biotechnology has grown over time

Publication Date:

14/04/1994

Author(s): Rita Anand

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Genetic Resources, Biotechnology

India

The incendiary Sardar Sarovar Dam project came to a head on March 15 this year, when Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) agitators, led by the redoubtable Medha Patkar, demonstrated in front of the ministry of environment and forests, asking the government to op

Publication Date:

14/04/1994

Author(s): Anirudh Bhattacharya

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Narmada Valley Project, India, Gujarat

India

A pact with evil truth

SCIENCE is a double-edged sword, as curative as a missionary and incomprehensibly barbaric in more or less equal measure. After decades of rampant scientism, there is now a perception that it is

Publication Date:

14/04/1994

Author(s): Bhanusingha Ghosh

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940415

pp:

0

Tags:

Science

India

Bills of contention

Two legislations on plant genetic resources have been proposed. But who benefits?

Publication Date:

14/04/1994

Author(s): Anumita Roychowdhury

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Legislation, India

India

Scientific performance: publish or perish

IT IS extremely difficult to measure the scientific performance of a nation, both statistically and in terms of effect. But the few indicators that do exist clearly indicate that developing countries

Publication Date:

Thursday, April 14, 1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

Issue:

pp:

Tags:

Science, Developing Countries, Statistics

India

A stitch in time

Forget dugout canoes and catamarans take a ride on a sewn boat

Publication Date:

14/04/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940415

pp:

0

India

The logic of importing lowly dung

THE largely deprecatory reports in the Indian media about the proposed import of Dutch dung have missed a key point. The idea seems to sound so outlandish because dung is a lowly thing in the

Publication Date:

14/04/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940415

pp:

0

Tags:

Animal Dung, Imports, Netherlands, India

India

The closing of the gates

A controversy boiled over when the construction sluices were closed abruptly and affected scores of people

Publication Date:

14/04/1994

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Dams, Narmada Valley Project, Rehabilitation, India

India

Tanking up on history

NOTED environmental activist and writer Anupam Mishra's recent book on tanks is a significant contribution to environmental studies for at least three reasons: first, it establishes the historical

Publication Date:

14/04/1994

Author(s): Mukul Sharma

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19940415

pp:

0

Tags:

Tanks, India