The first step is to get two important things from the forest – ‘rope’ which is made from the bark of a tree and a bamboo ladder. To get a single bamboo from a thicket is not easy.

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
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
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
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
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

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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