What do people think about poverty? How do they know they are below the poverty line? In a recent participatory poverty assessment done by Praxis-ActionAid India in Balangir, Orissa, one of India's

Policymakers don t need to go too far to eradicate poverty. The solution is as close as is a village well to a villager

The mood was sensationally upbeat in urban India when National Council

When poverty is endemic, it is very hard to select a few districts that ideally should be the poorest of the poor. "It is difficult to identify the poorest districts as the lists prepared by

Nine years after the Bhopal methyl isocyanate disaster, we examined the effects of exposures among a cross-section of current residents and a subset of those with persistent symptoms. We estimated individual exposures by developing exposure indices based on activity, exposure duration, and distance of residence from the plant.

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The Indian government has a set a target for renewable energy: 10,000 megawatt by 2012. So far so good. Renewables can electrify the rural marginalised who cannot be connected to the national grid. But how will it meet this target? Especially, when it too

Farmers and activists in Bastar reject high yielding rice varieties to preserve traditional varieties

Wild fruits in the Himalayas could well be an answer to the nutrition and energy requirements of the region

Litigation as a weapon for tobacco control

Renewables form just 3% of the total installed power generation capacity in the country. Augmenting the targetted 10% of