When things fall apart
Shortage of roughs and low demand has led to large-scale retrenchment in Surat’s diamond industry. The result is increasing unrest among the workers. HARESH JHALA reports.



Dump DDT, here and now
Malaria afflicts over 300 million people world wide each year and claims one million lives, almost one every fifteen seconds. Over two hundred thousand people are afflicted in India alone.



Working out power economics
Payments to power producers are in the news again. There is an amazing lack of understanding of competition and the working of markets in a country which seems to be experimenting with ``reforms'' for over a decade.



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Big brother lands in a big mess