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SEPTEMBER 2002

Environment

Nitin Desai

Earth Summit 2002
Johannesburg

'More than a billion people in the world never drink a glass of clean water'

"The World Summit for Sustainable Development," was the largest United Nations meeting in history — with more than 100 world leaders and 65,000 delegates meeting in Johannesburg to resolve the thirst, hunger, disease, unfair trade, and environmental emissions faced by the poorer nations of the world. Unlike the 1992 earth summit in Rio, multinational firms such as McDonald's, Rio Tinto, Nike, Nestle and British American Tobacco were there too.

"There can be no global security without an agenda for global equity."
- Gerhard Schroeder, Chancellor of Germany

Sports

Even as their male counterparts tee off on foreign greens, women golfers in India are still struggling with the basics: Few sponsors, no professional tournaments, no coaches and no career prospects

Women Golfers

Books

Bapi- the love of my life'

Sitar may be her first love but there's another love in Anoushka's life which she values even more. And that's Bapi, as she fondly calls her legendary father, Pandit Ravi Shankar. In her recently released book, Bapi--The Love of My Life, she details many interesting - and controversial--facts of the doyen of music….

Visual Arts

For the past decade photographer Prabir Chandra Purkayastha has been going to Ladakh - to its people, culture and society. Perhaps the most stunning of all photographs is the one he shot on September 11, 2001 of a 600 year old 30-foot tall Maitreya (Buddha) at the monastery of Basqo. Purksyastha claims he saw tears rolling down Maitreya's eyes. "I was shocked and stunned.