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A hundred dead gharials and the Gaia effect Over 100 gharials mysteriously died in the Chambal river recently, possibly poisoned by toxins. This points to the fact that wildlife conservation will simply not survive if we concentrate only on a few islands called ‘protected’ areas, writes Ashish KothariMore... Food on the table: What it costs in urban IndiaHard data now shows the size of the food price burden on urban households. From Cuttack to Panaji, Jammu to Chennai, families have paid more every year for the last three years for staple foods More... Izzat ka mamla hai: The doomed love story of Rizwanur-PriyankaThe indictment of the police by the CBI in the Rizwanur Rehman case in Kolkata reveals the complicity of State and society in maintaining and perpetuating regressive socio-cultural prejudices in the name of family honour and religious belief More... The merits of affirmative actionAn important pillar of affirmative action in the US has been the preferential allotment of tenders and contracts in the corporate sector to blacks. What have opinion-makers and industry in India done to build a just society for dalits? Most recently,industry turned down the government’s request for reservations in the private sector More... Sixty years of women's struggles for freedom?It’s probably the best time to be Indian in the last few hundred years. But, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara on International Women’s Day, the many forms of gender violence make it seem as if things are worse for women today than they used to be More... A hundred dead gharials and the Gaia effectOver 100 gharials mysteriously died in the Chambal river recently, possibly poisoned by toxins. This points to the fact that wildlife conservation will simply not survive if we concentrate only on a few islands called ‘protected’ areas, writes Ashish Kothari More... We are what we eatThere are three ideal attributes of food, according to Carlo Petrini of the Slow Food movement: It should appeal to the senses; it should be clean and environment-friendly; and most of all these days, it should be fair More... Will the law against organ sale remain a moral victory?When India passed the Transplantation of Human Organs Act banning trade in organs, those who had agitated for the law may have thought they had won the battle. Instead the kidney trade has only flourished. The public is being told that the only way to put a stop to the kidney trade by people such as Amit Kumar, who has been running a global trade in organs since 1994, is to regulate the market for human organs More... Privatisation unlimited: Rivers for sale in ChhattisgarhIn March 2007, a Public Accounts Committee came down heavily on the Chhattisgarh government for allowing a private company to appropriate the waters of the Sheonath river. Nevertheless, business continues as usual. In fact, more corporate houses have been given easy access to river waters in the state at the cost of the drinking water and irrigation needs of local communities More... Happy New Year?We are beginning 2008 with a heady mix of tigers, tribals, state terrorism in the guise of ‘development’, and the occasional triumph of the public will. What will prevail as the year unfolds? A new monthly column by Ashish Kothari on the politics of biodiversity will assess whether we’re moving further towards, or away from, ecological suicide More... The prince, the priest and the merchantWe the people are supposed to be in charge of the modern manifestations of power. But are we? The secular democratic process is only the old Prince-Priest-Merchant nexus in disguise, says John Samuel More... Open letter to Gandhiji on his 60th death anniversaryOn the Mahatma’s 60th death anniversary, a former member of the right-wing RSS writes about his early indoctrination against Mahatma Gandhi and his eventual realisation of Gandhi’s relevance in modern-day India More... |
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