When Expedience Trumps Expertisem by Ramachandra Guha

Uttarakhand reiterates that our rulers have contemptuous disregard for the advice of the best scientists and would rather listen to ...
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HIV/AIDS: Beyond the Public Health Domain

The problem of health and illness have been mystified to such an extent that confusion prevails not only in the ...
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Women Drudgery in Uttarakhand hills

Drudgery in the hills……….. Earlier she carried firewood, now its gas cylinder……….from road head to her village……….
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Hydel projects hold bleak future in Himalayas

After environmentalists, the nature’s fury has also not spared the hydropower projects in Uttarakhand. The damage caused by the June ...
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Uttarakhand: It’s not always a Valley of Flowers by Amit Sengupta

They used their hands and minds, limited manual technology on death-wish edges and thresholds, their physical bodies, their willpower and ...
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Tea Garden in Uttarakhand Garhwal and the Chowfin family -Devendra Kumar Budakoti

Tea Garden in Uttarakhand Garhwal and the Chowfin family; While the tea plant was growing wild in the jungles of ...
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Blood Pressure: Hurry, Worry and Curry, by D.K. Budakoti

I recognize her and saw her by chance Though not very sure at the first glance Took a chance by ...
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Uttarakhand Disaster: Destruction could have been minimized had we learnt from Foreign countries. By Katyayani Upreti.

Not much done on Pre-Disaster Management in India. Had we learnt from foreign countries on how to tackle disaster, the massive ...
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Missing Girl Child in Uttarakhand: A Case of Female foeticide

The census of 2001 has once again brought into focus the issue of Gender equity in India. The problem that ...
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OF FAITH, ENVIRONMENT AND SHIVA ‘S TANDAVA by Major Rahul Jugran

My Granny was a very religious person. However, ever since my Childhood I had my reservations in the ways she ...
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