The sharply edited, easy-to-reproduce features and news briefs, in particular, closely examine technological developments in the areas of ecology, energy, health, industry, agriculture, pollution, community-based initiatives and water management. And, more significantly, they explore the links between these areas and between people working on the issues at the macro level and those operating at the grassroots.

As CSE has been working in these areas since their inception in the 1980s, discerning readers find that the service is not yet another ‘development debate’. They discover that it provides a comprehensive and invigorated Southern perspective, with a view to promote equitable and democratic global governance. The realpolitik behind national and international negotiations also stands exposed.

The current features are segregated into three distinct sections.

Hindi Feature Service
The Hindi feature service is published in collaboration with the Indore based Sarvodaya Press Service and sent to about 250 subscribers across the country – especially the Hindi belt of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttaranchal, Madha Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, and to some select publications in other states. The features are sent along with Sarvodaya’s bulletin.

English Feature Service
The English features, on the other hand are currently focused towards 15 subscribers, to whom we provide customised features online, based on the region and interests and requirement of the subscriber.

South Asia Feature Service
The South Asia features are sent online to selected 25 media organisations from the South Asian countries, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. This also is a fortnightly service.

As mentioned above the features are free to use. However, in order know whether our feature service is useful to our subscribers we insist that subscribers send us the clippings of the stories used by them. We also insist on acknowledgements to our writers and credit to CSE/Down to Earth Feature Services.