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With a greater part of the country facing the parched reality of a drought, rainwater harvesting seems to hold the answer to water woes of millions of countrymen.
Tribune reporters examine why this scheme has not been a success in spite of government thrust
 A park that never was
A political casualty
The right steps |
Vibha Sharma
IF
India manages to catch just 2 per cent of the annual rainfall it
receives, one billion people in the country can be provided 100
litres per person per day, throughout the year. A family of five
(not referring to people in urban areas who are water guzzlers)
requires six to seven litres of potable water for drinking and
cooking everyday, which comes to around 10,000 to 12,000 litres
in a year. |
A village for women
About 30 tribal women of
Kenya, fed up with their abusive husbands, have built an entire
village only for women near Nairobi. Everything that is the reverse of
patriarchy is the norm here, writes Mehru Jaffer
Nadia
Ferroukhi (38), a Paris-based photographer, is mad about
matriarchy, and spends much of her time travelling around the globe in
search of dying societies where women are still in charge.
Elephant
country
Hugh
and Colleen Gantzer visit the Kabini
River Lodge, a perfect getaway for nature lovers. Once the hunting
lodge of the erstwhile Maharaja of Mysore, today it is rated among the
top wildlife resorts in the world
THE
wild elephant stood half-concealed in a bamboo thicket. We wouldn’t
have seen him if he hadn’t been flapping his ears, slowly, cooling
himself. He heard the buzz of our cameras and began to amble towards
us.
Taj
builders used Harappan measurement units
K. S. Jayaraman
Designers
of the 17th century Taj
Mahal, the finest piece of Mughal architecture, employed the same unit
of measurement used by the Harappan civilization of 2000 BC, according
to a new study reported in the latest issue of Current Science.
A
date with Farah
Jasmine
Singh chats up the ace director on Bollywood and more
UP
front and confident, choreographer director Farah Khan is never scared
of speaking her mind. And, now she is also trying to pick up some tips
on ‘being tactful.’
Cut
to Kaminey
I thought Kaminey
offer was a crank call, says Amol Gupte in a tęte-ŕ-tęte with Subhash
K Jha
Amol
Gupte has received praise for his performance as a
Maharashtrian mafioso in Vishal Bharadwaj’s recently released
thriller Kaminey, but when the writer-director was first
approached for the role, he thought someone was playing a prank on
him.
Yellow
Submarine
to be made in 3D
Arifa Akbar
MORE
than 40 years after the cinematic success of Yellow Submarine,
the animated film that epitomised the height of psychedelic pop
culture and featured a Beatles soundtrack, it is to be re-made in 3D
by Disney.
Smilie
goes sweetless
Stephen Foley in New York
Smilie
Suri, who debut in Bollywood with film Kalyug opposite
Kunal Khemu, said she left sweets as she took a swear she won’t eat
sweet until the movie goes hit in box-office report.
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