A commitment to excellence and breathtaking photography characterise the two recent films on Ladakh made by Naresh and Rajesh Bedi

IF ONE were to pick a single product to represent the tremendous technological progress in the second half of this century, it would certainly be the computer. In few fields has progress been so

Whether the revolutionary passion of his early verse, or the more mellow vision of his later work, Jnanpith award winner Subhas Mukhopadhyay's poetry inspired an entire generation

A look at today's environmental issues through the eyes of two well known poets, exclusive to Down To Earth

In this issue, we carry two reports: One on the subject of human rights suppression and environmental degradation, and the other on trade bans against environmentally harmful products. Both trade and

THE MORSE committee has asked the World Bank to step back from the Sardar Sarovar project. Whether the bank complies or not, the committee has undoubtedly delivered a resounding indictment of

The need of the hour is to reconcile apparently irreconcilable interests

SOMEWHERE in the Ayodhya hills of Bengal's Purulia district, a scorpion stung the wits out of me. My adivasi companion, Sukhchand, still in his teens, rubbed a poultice made up of some leaves on

Lack of respect for facts and a strong ideology guided by Judaic Christian thought dominate the report

There are no new insights in the Morse committee's recommendations