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Green warriors of the Garo hills
Meghalaya’s South Garo Hills are under serious threat from illegal coal mining. The Garo Students Union, and its dynamic leader Prosper S Marak, have been battling to preserve the biodiversity of this region. Marak was declared Earth Hero for 2009 and also won the Young Naturalist Award for 2009 More... “We are women too…”Like other women, transgender women too crave romantic relationships and family, but they have to fight for their rights to these. Helping them is Kalki Subhramanium’s first-of-its-kind initiative – a matrimonial website for transgender women in search of Mr Right More... Interpreter of dreamsRamnika Gupta of Jharkhand is a chronicler of marginal cultures. She has scoured the country to document the wonderful diversity of tribal literature that goes back 3,000 years, told in 90 known tribal languages in India More... Niti, nyaya and perfect justiceThe theory of justice must be more concerned with the elimination of removable injustices than with defining a hypothetical perfectly just society, says Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in an interview to Infochange More... Mirakles do happen!A courier service entirely run and staffed by the hearing-impaired? Is it a workable idea? Here’s the remarkable story of just such a service surviving against all odds More... Laxmi Orang’s fight for justiceUndeterred by the brutal attack on her during a public rally, Laxmi Orang wants to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Tezpur in Assam to ensure the voice of her Adivasi community is heard in the corridors of power More... 'Women are the strongest critics of fundamentalist groups'Pakistani social activist Khawar Mumtaz talks about the importance of resolving conflict and the role that women can and have played in bringing about a more just and equitable society More... Fighting for ChilikaFor years Maghi Mantri of Panda Pokhari on Chilika Lake watched as local fishermen were squeezed into smaller and smaller spaces by unscrupulous politicians, non-traditional fishermen and illegal shrimp and prawn traders. In 1992 she set up two self-help groups and began to mobilise the local village women More... Tribal activist takes on steel giantTribal activist and journalist Dayamani Barla, who won this year’s Chingari Award for Women Against Corporate Crime in India, discusses her battle against the entry of Arcelor Mittal into Jharkhand where she says 80 lakh adivasis have been displaced by industry More... Pat Mooney vs The TerminatorSeventy-five per cent of the biological diversity of this world has already been wiped out, says Pat Mooney, conservationist and crusader against food patenting, in this interview More... Vijay Tendulkar: An artist and an activistRenowned playwright, novelist and activist Vijay Tendulkar, who died on May 19, discusses, in this interview recorded last year, the role and responsibilities of the artist, the importance of freedom of expression, and the frightening dichotomies of our times More... A space of their ownWomen’s activist Daud Sharifa Khanam, first recipient of the Durgabai Deshmukh Award instituted by the Central Social Welfare Board, began a Muslim Women’s Jamaat in 2003 to provide Muslim women a space to express themselves and contest traditional, repressive diktats More... Irom Sharmila: Eight years on, and still fightingA profile of the unique rebel who is fighting for a repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur, by the author of a new book on Irom Sharmila More... Vidya Munsi: Poster girl of the Indian women's movementVidya Munsi has been at the forefront of activism for over 65 years, joining the Indian communists in UK when the communist party was still illegal in India, becoming West Bengal’s first working woman journalist, and advocating throughout the cause of women More... Satish Kumar: Walking the talkSatish Kumar, editor of the alternative magazine Resurgence, talks about his 8,000-mile journey on foot to protest nuclear weapons, and the connections between peace, social justice and sustainability More... |
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