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'Documentary filmmakers: An endangered species'
Filmmaker, wildlife conservationist and Green Oscar-winner Mike Pandey discusses his films on the horseshoe crab, whale shark and other endangered species More... Janaagraha: Harnessing the force of the peopleDespite the 74th Amendment which calls for ward-level committees and empowered gram panchayats, despite the Right to Information and the National Urban Renewal Mission’s requirement of citizen participation through Area Sabhas, people’s participation in urban local governance is minimal. Janaagraha in Bangalore has been attempting to change that over the past four years. An in-depth report on its processes More... 'I suffered as a dalit, but did not view myself as a suffering dalit'K R Narayanan, India's first and only dalit President, died recently. In this, one of his final interviews, India's tenth President discusses his journey from a village hut to the presidential palace More... Fighting the stigma of 'chor'One of colonialism's harshest legacies was the branding of 10 crore nomadic and forest tribals as thieves and criminals. Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer Lakshman Maruti Gaikwad, whose books chronicle the pain and anguish suffered by his community, the Pardhis, continues the struggle against this injustice More... 'All out-of-school children must be considered child labour': Shamshad KhanWinner of Outlook magazine's Best Social Worker of the Year award, Shamshad Khan, director of the Centre for Rural Education and Development Action, is on a mission: to rescue and rehabilitate young children working in the Mirzapur-Bhadohi carpet belt in Uttar Pradesh More... A thousand dreams, 1,000 voicesThe 157 South Asian women who are amongst the 1,000 women being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005, are struggling to get access to clean water, control over land and other resources; they are fighting against the destruction of local diversities, building bridges between conflicting communities, and working to protect the human rights of women and other minorities More... Phenomenal woman: Sashikala GovekarOn a search for its Woman of the Year, the Goan newspaper Gomantak Times came across the extraordinary Sashikala Govekar, a fisherwoman who breathes life into Mapusa market, and a sarpanch who is much respected in Nerul More... A positive approachJahnabi Goswami is the first woman in the northeast to declare her HIV status. She has lived with HIV -- and the accompanying discrimination -- for ten years. In 2002 she set up the Assam Network of Positive People to build the capacities of people living with the virus More... E F Schumacher: The scale of wisdomE F Schumacher's Buddhist approach to economics distinguishes between misery, sufficiency and surfeit. Economic growth is good only to the point of sufficiency. Limitless growth and limitless consumption are disastrous More... The long road to another life...via Charity Focus and ProPoorAssisted by over 7,000 volunteers from around the world, Charity Focus and its ProPoor network offers an impressive database of news, information and job searches on the Internet More... Cleaning up the GangaIn Varanasi alone, 2,000 million litres of sewage are dumped into the Ganga every day. And there are 47 other large towns situated along the Ganges. Mahant Virbhadra Mishra of the Sankat Mochan Foundation explains his alternative plan to clean up the river More... Keeping craft traditions aliveAn interview with Sally Holkar, the woman behind Women Weave, a voluntary organisation that seeks to address the concerns of women weavers in India More... Where have all the dreamers gone?Bob Dylan, radical anti-establishment figure of the '60s, is no longer crooning for a better world. Today he symbolises weary compromise rather than idealistic youth More... |
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