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Who will clean up the Bhopal mess?
Rashida Bee, a survivor of the Bhopal gas tragedy, is at the Earth Summit, carrying a broom. Bee, who has been campaigning ceaselessly for justice for the Bhopal victims, hopes to hand over the broom to the head of multinational Dow Chemicals, in a symbolic suggestion that they clean up the mess they've left behind More... `Social motivation without sustainability has no value': Akhtar BadshahAkhtar Badshah, executive director and co-founder of Digital Partners Global - a development organisation that showcases, assists and brings in funding to support good ventures -- sees "enormous potential" in digital technologies and the digital economy helping poor communities leapfrog out of poverty More... Drs Nandakumar and Shylaja Menon: Coming homeFrom top-of-the-line healthcare centres in New York to the Gudalur Adivasi Hospital in Tamil Nadu was one hell of a jump for Drs Nandakumar and Shylaja Menon. But it's been 12 years, and they're still working in their dream village More... C K Janu: 'Experience is my guide'C K Janu is illiterate and has no political ideology except her own, born of poverty, bondage and the experience of working as a domestic and daily-wage labourer since the age of seven. And yet she is spearheading the struggle of Kerala's 3.5 lakh landless adivasis (tribals) More... Bimla Devi: Health messages and hymnsBimla Devi, a young dalit woman from Nagal Teju village in Haryana, has managed to ensure safe motherhood and deliveries in her village. She has got the upper and lower castes drinking water from the same tap. She has prevented a child marriage. And she has spread awareness about gender equality and panchayati raj. More... Drs Roopa and Narayanan Devadasan: Incredible odds, fighting the godsUntil the '90s the tribal people of Gudalur Valley summoned the Bettakurumba gods for all their health problems. It was years before Drs Roopa and Narayanan Devadasan could begin to change the tribal health scenario. But slowly and painfully their determination paid off. Now the Bettakurumba gods have started sending patients to the Gudalur Adivasi Hospital! More... Rehmat Fazalbhoy: A wider visionJamnalal Bajaj awardwinner Rehmat Fazalbhoy, visually impaired herself, was the first trained teacher for the blind in India and the first to promote the idea of integrated education for the disabled. More... Ramachandra Guha: The trouble with radical environmentalistsWell-known historian and writer Ramachandra Guha discusses the crisis in the environmental movement today, how environmentalists are always looking for impossible ideal solutions, and why development must place equal emphasis on ecology, social justice and economics. After all, he says, isn't democracy all about harmonising conflicting interests? More... Anil Agarwal: Economic globalisation must be followed by ecological globalisationIn an interview with Le Monde (April 1999), environmentalist Anil Agarwal, who passed away on January 2, talks about the three big challenges for humanity in the 21st century More... Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala: To every man (and woman) a Net connectionThat is Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala's dream. Will he be able to pull off this dream to make the Internet accessible to every Indian? Will he be able to do for the Internet in India what Sam Pitroda did with the telephone? More... Marie Christine de Rochemonteix:A school with heartMarie 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 adjustmentPublic 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 filthThousands 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... |
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