Jagpreet Luthra

Twenty years ago, Mohini Sharma used to drive three kilometres to buy a couple of raw coconuts for her child whenever he had diarrhoea. “Tender coconut was hardly available in north India then,” says the 45-year-old homemaker, a resident of…
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Millets are marvellous sources of nutrition. Traditional and rural societies everywhere in the country and agricultural scientists in the top echelons of the Indian government have long known it. But it took free India 70 years to notify…
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Birds with open beaks are a common sight in summer. They also breathe faster during the months of high heat. Both these are the birds’ way of fending off the stress caused by extreme temperatures. The heat tolerance threshold of most common…
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