Cynicism is perhaps the natural fallout of a long career within the government machinery. But when Yash Pal, one of the country's leading scientists, accuses Indian science of lacking a definition of its own and emphasises the need for a cultural revol

Learning in the present social context should lay more stress on inculcating social and ethical values that would bring Indians closer to each other.

Friends of the Earth FOE in Netherlands has been fighting unsustainable lifestyles in the world's affluent societies by campaigning vigorously for sustainable development. Manus Van Brakel, who looks after FOE's Third World operations, talked to Down To

THE GRAND Mughal Akbar, whose 450th birth anniversary was marked this year, once remarked he would venerate the person who could grow two blades of grass where one grew previously. Was he not

Big business in Germany more than in any other country. But how delighted should an environmentalist be with this development?