Articles
Feb 01 2004
Toying with science
: Toying with science

Rasika Dhavse profiles Arvind Gupta, winner of the National Award for Science Popularisation.

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Turning farmers into brokers
To expect poor and marginal farmers to trade online seems to be a wild imagination of a stockbroker, says Devinder Sharma.
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Globalisation, values and democracy
Over the next two decades, Indians are going to see an enormous challenge to the value systems of the past, being replaced by the new value systems of globalisation says Ramesh Ramanathan.
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A question of honour
New Delhi's relations with Naga leaders may at last be taking a turn for the better, and offering hope for an end to the long-running insurgency, says Ramachandra Guha.
Feb 01 2004
The slow poisoning of Punjab
: The slow poisoning of Punjab
Damaged soil, ill-effects from pesticides, and falling water tables are the legacy of practices that were once thought great for the state. Ramesh Menon reports.
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Govt shining, Media mining
The India Together editorial.
Feb 01 2004
Succumbing to stone-cutting
: Succumbing to stone-cutting
Gopal Krishna reports on the heavy price being paid by stone-cutters of the Lalkuan area of New Delhi.
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Towards a grey revolution?
Encouraging contract farming is going to hurt the 600 million people dependent on subsistence agriculture, says Devinder Sharma.
Feb 01 2004
Reaching out with valuable technology
: Reaching out with valuable technology
This IIT Kharagpur professor's vision is to remove the digital divide between the visually impaired and the sighted world. Rasika Dhavse profiles Anupam Basu and his innovation, Sparsha.
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Infotech and creating resources
Information technology can and must expand from merely being an agent of the trickle-down effect to active resource mobilization, says Krishna Rupanagunta.
Feb 01 2004
To make Kashmir smile
: To make Kashmir smile
Mehbooba Mufti speaks of her interest in bringing gender parity to Jammu and Kashmir.
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Financing inequality and impunity
World Bank funding of development projects in Andhra Pradesh is criticized by rights activists in the state who argue that conditions for the poor are worsening.
Feb 01 2004
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Interlinking the Chief Ministers
Sudhirendar Sharma notes the reversal of positions on the mega-project is tied to political changes rather than environmental or social assessments.
Feb 01 2004
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Bringing laws on course
Left to “take its own course”, the law invariably manages to meander into a dead end. Time to make it chart a more meaningful course, says Dilip D’Souza.
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The Press must represent the public
Frederick Noronha caught up with Tarun Tejpal to learn more about the launch of the Tehelka weekly paper.
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The rise of India and WSF
It will be a mistake to view the WSF merely as a platform for those dispossessed and displaced by market-driven globalization, says Rajni Bakshi.
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Fighting crime on the tracks
For the Railways, the key to crime-control is to concentrate on the smaller issues of orderliness, abatement of nuisances, petty crimes and rule of law.
Feb 01 2004
I'm the traitor
: I'm the traitor
The more crooked a leader, the more he trumpets his own patriotism, the more he pronounces who else is patriotic, says Dilip D'Souza.
Feb 01 2004
The doubtful science of interlinking
: The doubtful science of interlinking
Why exactly do we need to link our rivers? Jayanta Bandyopadhyay and Shama Perveen of IIM Kolkata present a sweeping analysis of some important justifications on which the Interlinking project stands.
Feb 01 2004
Danger! Date-expired syllabus
: Danger! Date-expired syllabus
There’s a dawning awareness that the growing mismatch between the needs of the Indian economy and the nation’s 40 million unemployed is the obsolete education received by them. Dilip Thakore reports.