Heavy summer showers lashing Kerala in the last three days have wreaked havoc in the state’s ‘rice bowl’ Kuttanad in central Travancore area where vast stretches of matured paddy has been destroyed. Besides the unseasonal rains, resistance by unions of farm workers to the use of harvesting machines have added to the woes of paddy […]
New Abolitionists Fight Slavery in Tomato Fields
by James Parks, Mar 13, 2008 The slave trade in the United States was banned 200 years ago, but in the tomato fields of south Florida, modern-day slavery still thrives. Farm workers who pick tomatoes for the fast-food industry are among this country’s most exploited workers. They sometimes are held against their will, beaten and forced […]
Tender coconut wine can be USP to promote Kerala tourism
Sebastian P. Augustine, 66, a farmer in Kerala’s northernmost Kasargod district, started making wine by mere chance . On seeing that his coconut grove was diseased, he was forced to make good use of it by plucking the tender coconuts and making wine by fermenting coconut water. Today, armed with a patent for the […]
Tepary Bean and High Deserts.
Are tepary beans a viable staple for other parts of the world? Indigenous peoples who lived in the Southwest learned what worked through centuries of trial and error. Most of us have lost, or never had, those skills. One of the proven staples of the Southwest was the tepary bean, Phaseolus acutifolius. The name possibly […]
Human Cloning and Its Social Impacts
Can anybody imagine himself as a cloned man, a nameless and faceless identity having no parental credential in this world? It is very simple that such a peripheral identity will never be commensurable with the existing societal norms and sentiments. Human life is such that it always bears some parental and communal identity to assert […]
THE DARJEELING CLUB LTD.(THE PLANTERS)ESTD. 1868 -THE RAJ LEGACY
Cool climate, majestic mountain views, unique floral and faunal diversity, fine heritage buildings, lush green tea gardens and landscape earned Darjeeling the name of ‘the Queen of the hills’. There are many heritage buildings in Darjeeling which tell us the story of development of this hill station. Darjeeling Club is one such building which […]
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