India

 Feathers, nails, bones and blood!

Time has come for tribal medication to be revalidated

Publication Date: 
29/04/1996
Jagdish Swaroop
Down to Earth
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Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Medical Systems, India, Kerala
India

 Paradise lost

The Kerala government is all set to 'develop' Bekal, near Kasargod, into Asia's largest tourist resort. But the locals are far from enthusiastic about it. Resentment against the Rs 1,000- crore

Publication Date: 
14/04/1996
Down to Earth
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Tourism, India, Kerala
India

 Moneymakers

SWEET REMEMBRANCE: Students can now literally chew their way to better memorv. Madras-based Velvette International Pharma is all set to launch a wonder drug - chocolates with memory-enbancing

Publication Date: 
14/04/1996
Down to Earth
Tags:
Floriculture, India, Kerala
India

 Stalking new victims

AFTER malaria, it is the turn of Japanese encephalitis. Alapuzha and Kottayam districts of Kerala are in severe grip of encephalitis where it has already claimed 3G lives. Though the situation

Publication Date: 
30/03/1996
Down to Earth
Tags:
Encephalitis, India, Kerala
India

 A fair Share

TRIBALS and patent rights activists have something to cheer for. In the first instance of its kind, the Kani tribe dwelling in the Agastyar hills in southern Kerala, will get the rights over an

Publication Date: 
14/03/1996
Down to Earth
Tags:
Tribals, Medicinal Plants, Patents, Kerala
India

 DISLODGED

The state forest department of Kerala has been ordered by the High Court not to carry on with its proposal for constructing a forest lodge in Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary. Apparently, the

Publication Date: 
14/03/1996
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Act 1980, India, Kerala
India

 Dry truths

Action councils have been set up in a number of villages in Kerala opposing the proposed Kurumaulloor Major Distribution Canal, an 18.5 km extension canal of the Muvattupuzha Irrigation

Publication Date: 
28/02/1996
Down to Earth
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Irrigation, India, Kerala
Environment

 For a better tomorrow

There are many in Kerala who just would not have anything to do with the obsolete official education system. They want change, and that, through people's active participation. They are the ones behind the innovative Vigyanotsavam

Publication Date: 
14/02/1996
Joseph Antony
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Science, Education, Public Participation, Kerala
India

 Mean model

The modalities of the model much acclaimed Kerala Model cannot survive long on self denial

Publication Date: 
14/02/1996
P R J Pradeep
Down to Earth
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19960215
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Tags:
Development, Kerala
India

 Living life lightly

Six years ago, Bill Mckibben wrote The End of Nature and became the most prominent literary environmentalist. But writing this book depressed him, and he decided to look more optimistically at the

Publication Date: 
14/01/1996
Down to Earth
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19960115
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Tags:
Cuba, India, Kerala

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