Beej Bachao Andolan, Vividhara and many other groups from Uttarakhand Invite you to An Exhibition and Sale of Diverse, Healthful Organic Foods and Natural Products (amongst others, there’s a wide range of rajmas to choose from, breakfast cereals, spices, pickles, tea, natural cosmetics, flours, red rice, herbs, jams, nutritious millets, snacks, drinks, handicrafts, woollens…) at reasonable prices, where the [...]
Opportunity for learning and carrying out research for dissertation and detailed project work at grassroots level under guidance from project implementing organisations under Network of Environment NGOs. (Supported by Delhi Greens) 1. The Vigyan Vijay Foundation (Er. Ajit Seshadri) 2. Parkash Environmental Group (Mr. O.P. Singh) 3. Indian Pollution Control Association (Mr. Ashish Jain) Projects covered [...]
Govind Singh govind@delhigreens.org After years of conservation activity and having been literally brought back from the brink of extinction, the Indian Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) is in serious trouble yet again. The Indian Gharial (which derives its name from ghara, an earthen pot that resembles the bulbous nasal appendage present on mature males) with its characteristic [...]
Year 2007 is the centennial of Gandhi’s Satyagraha (Civil Disobedience) in South Africa. It is also the 150th Anniversary of India’s first Independence Movement of 1857 and the Year 2008 will mark 100 years of Hind Swaraj as well as Gandhi’s 60th death anniversary. It is hence an appropriate time to revisit the models of democracy [...]
Indra Sinha, the dynamic former Editor of Bhopal.net, the force behind the Bhopal Medical Appeal, which funds the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, a critical source of free medical treatment for tens of thousands of poisoned Bhopal residents and the author of Animal’s People, a 2007 novel written from the perspective of one of the survivors of [...]
Tata Nano Homour: How good (or bad) the situation may really get!
The Nehru Memorial Museum & Library is organizing a seminar on Mahatma Gandhi and the Quest for a Just Society under the able Directorship of Professor Mridula Mukherjee, in its ongoing effort to bring scholars, intellectuals and those leading popular struggles to come together and discuss issues that face the society in these critical times. [...]
Govind Singh govind@delhigreens.org It is said about cities that if we listen carefully, a city speaks and narrates its story to all those who consider it their own. Delhi is no different and a rendezvous with the city reveals its glorious past and a heritage of green spaces, some of which were preserved even before [...]
Image theme: Rainbow from the Tricolour, at Teen Murti Bhawan, New Delhi
