Indian state diverts irrigation water to industry
Nearly three billion cubic metres of water per year has been diverted from irrigation projects to other uses in Maharashtra state, and a new National Water Policy is now in danger of allowing the same to happen across India. Should water be used as an ‘economic good’?
By Grace Boyle | Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 11:52 am
How to make electricity from rice husk
A company in one of India’s poorest states is delivering electricity to the rural poor, using only rice husk.
By Grace Boyle | Notebook | Friday, 10 December 2010 at 12:03 pm
Good afternoon. How much for a forest?
India’s environment ministry has been one of the most enthusiastic receptors of a report that seeks to place market value on biodiversity. But its timing coincides with a tragic attempt to protect those same assets from the uncompromising expansion of the country’s coal industry.
By Grace Boyle | Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 10 November 2010 at 1:04 pm
Power struggles in India
Bihar, a state with some of India’s most sophisticated ancient history, now has some of its deepest-rooted problems. Political crossroads are here again with this month’s state government elections, and vying politicians are promising renewable energy to win votes.
By Grace Boyle | Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 8 November 2010 at 12:25 pm
Hold hands and forge forwards
Or is it backwards? Nostalgia for the not-so-distant days when India was a nation of farmers is linking city dwellers with ambitious agriculturalists.
By Grace Boyle | Notebook | Wednesday, 20 October 2010 at 6:15 pm
Beware the honey pot. If you live in India, that is
An investigation into honey sold in India finds most brands to be heavily laced with antibiotics, a double standard that is unacceptable for honey sold in developed countries.
By Grace Boyle | Notebook | Monday, 18 October 2010 at 11:43 am
Beatbox and morchang meet in Bangalore
British beatboxer Schlomo and Rajasthani morchang player Raies Khan flex their throats
By Grace Boyle | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 20 September 2010 at 12:48 pm
Notes on a road accident
Everyone rides around on the back of motorbikes in India, with no helmet on, so you grow to think it’s okay. I was doing it myself just this morning, to get to a work meeting. And then this evening we passed an accident, and a little girl was lying crumpled in the road, and I [...]
By Grace Boyle | Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 14 September 2010 at 11:50 am
A day of two festivals
Dancing, singing, food and sequins: India certainly knows how to throw a street party.
By Grace Boyle | Notebook | Saturday, 11 September 2010 at 10:34 pm
Watch out! Development coming up behind you
I had a very strange journey to work this morning. I walked out of my apartment in Bangalore, along the pavement at the side of the road, and to the cab rank where the autos were all in a neat row, out of the way of other traffic in an area designated by painted [...]
By Grace Boyle | Notebook | Monday, 6 September 2010 at 5:30 pm
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