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Articles about India, ordered by date. Open 'India' in the New Internationalist magazine app for Android or iOS mobile devices.

The Kattunayakans (also know as the honey hunters) can tell from the ground whether a hive 60-80 feet up in the air has honey or not and whether it is worth the effort climbing up there. They work in teams – each team has its own range or territory which is respected by all. The group then sets out close to dusk. They harvest the honey only when it is dark – otherwise the bees are much too aggressive. They carry with them nothing more than a knife, a few sacred items for their puja, a tin to lower the honey from the tree and big cans to carry the honey home.

Honey is life

Gathering wild honey is an age-old tradition in South India. Mari Marcel Thekaekara and her husband Stan see how it’s done.

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NI 425 - Where have all the Bees gone? - September, 2009
425 - September, 2009
Peace train: Muslim clerics make a symbolic journey to promote communal harmony.Photo: SHAILENDRA PANDEY / TEHELKA

Ripping up the rainbow

Shoma Chaudhury on the hate mongers intent on tearing up the very idea of India.

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NI 422 - Multiculturalism - May, 2009
422 - May, 2009
A Savage Environmentalism

A Savage Environmentalism

Jeremy Seabrook on how bogus environmentalism is threatening some of India’s best friends of the environment.

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NI 421 - Put people first - April, 2009
421 - April, 2009
The drugs don't work

The drugs don't work

Why young rural Indians end up addicted to pills

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NI 414 - We need to think about toilets - August, 2008
414 - August, 2008
Helping themselves and each other: Orissan women meet in an open forum.Photo: Marianne Lemvig, DanChurchAid

Cyclone survival

Women in Orissa, India, have ways of dealing with calamity

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NI 413 - Viva Yasuní! Life vs Big Oil - July, 2008
413 - July, 2008
India - two thirds of the country is suffering from drought conditions.

Drought hits Maharashtra

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NI 1 - World food crisis - March, 1973
1 - March, 1973
The Russian harvest - more than 30 million tons down on target this year.

India threatened by world food shortages

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NI 1 - World food crisis - March, 1973
1 - March, 1973

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Where have all the Bees gone? September, 2009
Multiculturalism May, 2009
Put people first April, 2009
We need to think about toilets August, 2008
Viva Yasuní! Life vs Big Oil July, 2008
World food crisis March, 1973
World food crisis March, 1973
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