A year ago, in this very column, I discussed the myopia of budget 2008, which did not touch upon events then beginning to unfold. Since then we have seen the world collapse and, perhaps, even
An interview with Bal Mukund Arora, the first veterinarian to be appointed wildlife epidemiologist in India. In his three decades at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute at Izzatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, he founded a centre for wildlife diseases. He has recently published the country
Himalayan degradation Colonial Forestry and Environmental Change in India by Dhirendra Datt Dangwal, Cambridge University Press, Delhi, Price Rs 895 The book questions the recent trend of treating environmental and agrarian concerns as two domains. Corporate accountability and sustainable development by Peter Utting and Jennifer Clapp, Oxford University Press, Price Rs 695 As
Toxic waste is a problem. Whose? RE 0.70 buys one of the cheapest paracetamol pills in the Indian market. An essential drug, it needs to be kept inexpensive. Manufacturing such drugs has a much bigger cost that is never factored into the pricing: pharma factories release large quantities of slurry, often hazardous. This is dumped in places where people either do not know the effects of
There was a jamboree in my town recently, a gathering of the powerful and famous, to discuss the climate change agreement the world must carve out in Copenhagen by end 2009. But what happened was
