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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What Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024) had to say on violence, secularism, and religion in India
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‘Supporter of BJP met me’: Surat candidates on the various reasons they withdrew from the election
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Microcontrollers in EVMs, VVPATs do not recognise party and candidate, observes Supreme Court
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‘Extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests’: US government report flags human rights abuses in India
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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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