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The spirit of Chipko needs to be revived

Some years back in a series of highly inspiring actions, Himalayan villagers in many parts of what is now present day Uttarakhand prevented the axing...

28.02.2025 10

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Perils of addictions

A recent study by University College London has presented the results of its findings on the impact of smoking on life expectancy in rather dramatic...

27.01.2025 10

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Traditional wisdom, modern challenges

In a cluster of villages inhabited by Tharu tribals in the terai area of Uttarakhand, a nutrition survey discovered that despite other problems,...

18.01.2025 7

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The world can be better when hopes coalesce

We all like to start a new year on a hopeful note. We like to think of all the possibilities of good work but this will not take us far if we stay...

04.01.2025 20

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Women take lead in revival of rivers

Small rivers have been getting depleted and sometimes simply vanishing in many parts of the country. This has aggravated the problem of floods as...

23.11.2024 9

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Canada’s emergence as a haven for terrorists

When asked if Canada is becoming a safe haven for terrorists, David Harris, former Chief of Strategic Planning of the Canadian Security...

25.10.2024 3

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Will humans learn from their history?

Human beings as we know them today can be traced back to about 100,000 years, perhaps a few thousand years less or more. For about 90 per cent of...

16.10.2024 1

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Gram Swaraj has new relevance for farmers

A significant and useful concept of the freedom movement was that apart from the struggles against the colonial government, there was a lot of...

29.09.2024 2

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Collaborations vital in national interest

The international situation has become more difficult in recent times due to the Ukraine and the Middle-East conflicts, as well as more recent...

18.09.2024 10

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Imran, Hasina and the United Nations

Some suggestions made in a recent article written by Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs in the context of recent changes (2022-24) in the political scene of...

31.08.2024 2

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History will be kinder to Sheikh Hasina

Western media has a strange record of being very harsh to several leaders of the world at certain phases in time. To give a prominent example, at a...

09.08.2024 4

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Chipko spirit needed to save Himalayan ecology

Speaking at an event ‘Mountain Dialogues’ on July 26 in New Delhi, the former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir NN Vohra made a strong plea for a...

05.08.2024 10

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Greater likelihood of major conflicts

A worrying aspect of some extremely costly and threatening conflicts in recent times has been that they seem to be getting prolonged. The added...

24.07.2024 4

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Simple messages to underpin education

At a time of increasing commercialization, it is only to be expected that the role of education as a means of bringing social change has been...

11.07.2024 1

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