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Marie Christine de Rochemonteix:A school with heart By Sarika Jain Antony Marie Christine de Rochemonteix, a French national living in Hyderabad, is determined to play an active part in India's literacy movement. Her schools, which take in disabled children as well, offer students a healthy mix of practical, innovative, all-round education More... Dr Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta: Hara-kiri by structural adjustmentBy Sandhya Srinivasan Public health is and must remain, the responsibility of the State, not of the private sector, NGOs or international organisations, says Dr Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, leading authority on public health in South Asia. But in the era of structural adjustment, with India and Pakistan spending just 1.5 and 1 per cent of their GDP respectively on health, diseases associated with poverty and malnutrition are actually on the rise. Whatever happened to structural adjustment with a human face? More... Martin Macwan: Amidst endless filthBy Anil Saari Arora Thousands of manual scavengers headload human excrement and clean dry latrines across the state of Gujarat, even though the practice has been banned. Martin Macwan, a Dalit activist and lawyer who set up the Navsarjan Trust, has been working against this dehumanising practice in 2,000 villages. His work against the hidden apartheid against Dalits has won him the Kennedy Human Rights Award for 2000 and the 2001 International Activist Award. More... |
