Seeds Of The Future
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How the fruit of a ‘chaunsa-kesar’ mango sapling could serve as a bridge for India-Pakistan peace
Peace activists carried a Pakistani ‘chaunsa’ sapling across the border and grafted it with a kesar mango plant at the Peace Hill Garden in Maharashtra.
Katherine Abraham
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Back to their roots: Dongrias of Niyamgiri are reviving indigenous seeds to cope with climate change
The Adivasi community had over the years gravitated toward rice monoculture, losing numerous landrace strains in the process.
Sonali Prasad
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A bank for seeds: In Telangana, a safehouse secures the future of agriculture
The genebank hosts 126,830 accessions (samples of a particular plant/crop population stored as seeds) collected from 144 countries.
Sahana Ghosh
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‘Physical building of WhatsApp University’: Satire on viral video of Galgotias University students
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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Shifting goalposts: AIFF chief Kalyan Chaubey needs to come clean on the ISL not having relegation
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Why are so many young Indians trading in cryptocurrency, especially in tier-two cities?
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Sugar in Nestlé baby food sold in African countries shows how corporations influence public policy
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From US to India, producers are developing 'open source' seeds to combat patents
Around the world, plant breeders are resisting what they see as corporate control of the food supply by making seeds available for other breeders to use.
Rachel Cernansky
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A brief encounter with Taliban leader Mullah Omar, as divisive in death as in life
A longtime South Asia expert recalls a trip to Afghanistan in 1995.
Ishtiaq Ahmad