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Cleaning up the Ganga In 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... Our work on budget analysis has shifted the balance of power in favour of the poor: MD MistryIt is money, and the power to influence its deployment, that is key to securing livelihoods and the rights of the marginalised, says M D Mistry, the grassroots activist who has traversed the distance from Gujarat's tribal heartland to parliament house in Delhi More... Komalda's homage to ordinarinessKomal Kothari, who died recently, was an ardent seeker of several systems of undocumented knowledge, and the richest repository of its interconnections. In him we have lost a vital link with living traditions on the ground, writes Rustom Bharucha More... 'We have to start the process of thinking about alternatives'Aruna Roy, founder-member of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatana and Ramon Magsaysay awardwinner for 2000, on why she will be campaigning against right-wing politics and for people's rights, and the growing feeling amongst development workers that they must engage eventually in electoral politics More... Social messages on a stringAlthough most people consider puppetry just another form of entertainment, Pune-based Hemant and Ranjana Kanitkar use the art for social awakening and reformation More... 'Feminine energy must rule the world': Eve EnslerEve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues has helped raise $25 million for the cause of preventing violence against women. The playwright was in India to help raise money for a women's shelter in a village near Dharamsala More... 'Why should gender or sexuality define our identity?'In a society where eunuchs can either be sex workers or beggars, Narthaki Natraj and Sakthi Bhaskar are well-known and respected Bharatanatyam artistes. This is their account of their battle against terrible cruelty and discrimination and their refusal to give up More... Dayabai, lady of fireMercy Mathew, also known as Dayabai, has been living in the Gond tribal hamlets of Madhya Pradesh for 20 years, sharing the lives of the tribals, teaching them organic farming and helping them fight for their rights More... 25% of Sharayu's workforce is disabledAt Sharayu Precision, Subhash Chuttar employs over 36 mentally and physically challenged men and women who work at jobs ranging from riveting, drilling and greasing to polishing and packing. Chuttar has just won the Helen Keller Award instituted by the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People More... Ratan Thiyam: Knocking on the doors of the human conscienceTheatre is more than dialogue, music, performance and production values, according to veteran playwright and director Ratan Thiyam. It is a medium to question society, war and violence More... The sermon of Saint IGNUcias of the Church of GNU/LINUXCopy, Reproduce and Modify is the dictum of Richard Stallman, the world's best-known guru of the free software movement More... |
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