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WHY WORDS ARE BIOTIC
What exactly is lost when a language dies? Do we also lose a biotic
world-view, the local knowledge and wisdom of which a language is
a repository? Is it a coincidence that areas of linguistic and ethnic
plurality are also areas of biodiversity?
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ALSO IN DOWN TO EARTH MAGAZINE
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STATE
SPONSORS DISABILITY
At least 10,000 people in several villages in Uttar Pradesh have
fallen prey to a crippling disease. 'Fluorosis’ is the administration’s
diagnosis. But from all accounts, the authorities themselves have
inflicted this agony upon the people.
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DRYING UP
Twin crises in the Sundarbans: depleting fish stocks and
marginalized fisherfolk
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From the DTE Editor’s Desk
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HOW
CITIES (DON'T) RUN
Last week I met an official of the local municipal corporation to discuss a
property tax case, a blatantly inaccurate and astronomical assessment. I
asked: why? Said this officer, "Harassment is our tool of governance."
Of course the property assessment was inflated. It had to be. We have to
presume the worst and then issue the notice. That was the way of doing
things, he explained.
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NEWS FROM CSE
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URGE
OVERKILL: DECLINING SPERM COUNT
The average man will be infertile within a century. Endocrine disruptors
cause an effect using more than one mechanism to disrupt normal sperm
development and reproduction. Increasing evidence shows plastics, fumes,
pesticides and metals in food and water cause impaired semen quality.
ENOUGH
TO MAKE YOU SICK
Fake medicines account for nearly 10 per cent of the global
pharmaceutical commerce. Trade in fake medicines flourishes due to
official apathy in India.
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