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Environment

The environmental fallout of conflict NEW

By Darryl D'Monte

Since the time the US army dropped the terrible defoliant, Agent Orange, on the Vietnam countryside, war and conflict have had a devastating impact on people and the environment

Pachyderm panic in Assam

By Teresa Rehman

Rampant habitat destruction has forced Assam’s elephants into close contact with humans. It is now all-out war between hungry elephants and angry tea estate workers. And still the forest department, the tea authorities and the district administration keep passing the buck

Waging a green war

Waging a green war

By Anup Sharma

Former Bodo militants have surrendered their guns but are still at war – against poachers and the timber mafia that are destroying the Subankhata Reserve Forest in Assam’s Baksha district

The taming of the wilds

The taming of the wilds

By Subrat Kumar Sahu

The first of a series on community forestry initiatives in Orissa, researched as part of the Infochange Media Fellowship 2009, discusses how India’s forests came to be controlled and owned by the state after 1855, placing the state in perpetual conflict with forest-dependent communities


Health

Children and women with HIV face destitution and violence

By Sandhya Srinivasan

Fifteen per cent of India’s 2.5 million HIV-positive are children. That’s 375,000 children, with 50,000 being born infected or becoming infected each year. The government has woken up to the tragedy of women and children infected or affected by AIDS and held a series of public hearings across the country recently

Friend, guide and counsellor

Friend, guide and counsellor

By Rimjhim Jain

Organised networks of HIV-positive people have penetrated to the districts where they are active in reaching out to each and every identified positive person to bring them their rights. Most prevention and care programmes by both national and international bodies closely liaise now with DLNs to ensure the success of their projects


Women

Moving beyond legalisation

Moving beyond legalisation

By Manjima Bhattacharjya

The Supreme Court of India recently asked the government why they don’t legalise prostitution if they can’t curb it. But do women in sex work really want a piece of paper called a license? Or police reforms that may lead to freedom from extortion, convictions against traffickers rather than new laws, directives and campaigns that make discrimination against women in prostitution legally punishable and socially condemnable?

Urban India

Motorised mayhem

Motorised mayhem

By Kalpana Sharma

The growth rate of motorised vehicles in India, at 10%, is higher than growth in GDP. India’s National Urban Transport Policy professes to keep people rather than vehicles as its focus. Yet it is private motorised transport that gets all the attention in our metros, not public transport


Agriculture

Urban poverty and malnutrition increase in MP

Urban poverty and malnutrition increase in MP

By Maheen Mirza

Malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh is much higher than the national averages for India. And MP’s urban poor are worst-affected. This is the first in a series of articles, researched as part of the Infochange Media Fellowships 2009, that analyse the food security of the urban poor who reside in the slums of Bhopal


Human Rights

“Being Indian, you have no right to be cynical”

“Being Indian, you have no right to be cynical”

Mahasweta Devi, the formidable literary talent and relentless fighter of many causes, talks to Anosh Malekar about the inequity in our society and why it’s necessary for every Indian to raise a voice against injustice


Disasters

Famine-like conditions in Aila-affected areas

Famine-like conditions in Aila-affected areas

By Somnath Mukherji

In its continuing coverage of the cyclone-affected Sunderbans, Infochange finds some 700 families in the K-plot island close to starvation. Nothing grows here any more, and rice is priced at Rs 22/kg. Villagers are desperate for work under NREGS


Media

Confused coverage, damaged credibility

Following severe criticism of media handling of the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai you’d think media coverage of the recent blast at German Bakery in Pune would be different. But the same kind of speculative and insensitive reporting has been witnessed once again, says Kalpana Sharma


Governance

Innocents caught in the crossfire

Violent conflicts between tribal communities, and between militant groups and the Indian State, have plagued the northeastern states of Nagaland, Tripura and Manipur for so many years that children born in Manipur after 1980 have never known the meaning of peace. In the absence of comprehensive official studies, K S Subramanian uses his own field experience and that of others to record the devastating effect of the conflicts on women and children

Infochange Reporting Fellowships 2010
Infochange Dossiers
Civil society
Multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue
Occupational safety and health
Reporting conflict
Against exclusion
Migration & displacement
Battles over land
HIV/AIDS: Big questions
Women at work
Child rights in India
Cost of liberalisation
Food security
Climate change
Sexual rights in India
The politics of water
Access to healthcare
Industrial pollution
Ashish Kothari
Darryl D'Monte
Kalpana Sharma
Mari Marcel Thekaekara
Manjima Bhattacharjya
John Samuel
Aseem Shrivastava
 

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Videos

CCDS presents 'Waste'. Parasher Baruah won the Infochange Media Fellowship 2008 to make this film

Kids for Change

Kashmir’s self-taught Mr Fixit

Film Forum

Lament of a lake

HIV/AIDS

Reportage, analysis and perspectives on HIV/AIDS in India
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