View from the other side of the satellite
Do emerging technologies like DDT and DDT hold any promise for the millions of viewers in rural areas? ANURADHA RAMAN finds out.



A ferengi's response to the ferengi
I cannot contest your right to appoint anybody you wish as your columnist. But as a foreigner who has lived in India for the last 17 years and who is married to an Indian, I do object to the title given to Fran‡ois Gautier's regular communal outburst as `The Ferengi's Column'.



Where are the healers?
While you are in India", V.S. Naipaul admonished his sister in 1949, "you should keep your eyes open." More than five decades later, we still need to keep our eyes as well as our ears open. Today, millions of people grope in the dark, as they have done for so long, in search of food, water, shelter and health care.



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