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Jungle Raj! A divisional forest officer in Orissa proves that the forest bureaucracy considers itself above the law and, on a whim, can deprive people of rights over their resources. A case in Sambalpur district, where a man had to wait two years for permission to cut and sell some trees on his land, shows how More... Farmer suicides in Chhattisgarh: A state in denialDespite having the highest rate of farmer suicides per 100,000 population, the Chhattisgarh government is in denial. No one talks about farmer suicides in the state. As a result, the problem goes totally ignored, unlike other states like Maharashtra and Kerala More... Letter from Dhaka: A fishing taleBangladeshi fishermen have fished in the country’s huge inland waterbodies for generations. How, in just a decade, did they come to be denied the right to fish? How and why did entire villages, their way of life, their culture, their livelihoods, crumble? Khademul Islam describes the battle over water rights More... Discrimination is built into our legislationIndia passed the Leprosy Act in 1898 to ensure that leprosy patients did not face discrimination. A hundred years on, Indian laws and regulations do just that. Legislation in several states prevents leprosy patients from obtaining a driving licence, travelling in trains, and contesting panchayat elections. And many marriage laws make “contracting leprosy” grounds for divorce More... Schools for allElementary school enrolment rose from approximately 156 million in 1999-2000 to about 194 million in 2006-07. The Annual Status of Education Report-Rural by the Pratham Resource Centre finds that school enrolment for rural areas, for children aged 6-14, was 93.4% in 2006. It increased to 95.8% in 2007. This is no mean achievement. Concerted efforts, committed policies and programmes have borne some fruit More... Lille: City of the futureThe city of Lille on the French-Belgian border likes to describe itself as a ‘Eurometropolis’. A major European industrial and services hub, the most interesting dimension of Lille is its greening. Lille is the only city in France to convert household waste to biogas, which is then used in public transport More... Knowledge for allIn a backlash to the skyrocketing prices of academic journals, academics worldwide are seeking ways to wrest knowledge back from the corporations and open access to all. Following the lead of major universities in Europe and USA, IMSc Chennai launched its open-access repository last month More... Jadugoda: Four decades of nuclear exposureEarlier this year there was yet another leak of radioactive sludge from UCIL’s uranium plant in Jadugoda, Jharkhand. The accident and the dismissive official response to it clearly show the low priority the nuclear establishment accords to the safety of Jadugoda’s people More... Red-chilli magicSelf-help groups in Betul district, Madhya Pradesh have a new confidence as they augment their agricultural income with small business practices such as trading in red chillies and making rooftiles More... The hi-tech seeds of child labourThe fallout of Bt cotton cultivation in Gujarat has been a rapid increase in acreage under cotton, a spurt in cotton exports and consequently, a huge demand for child labourers from neighbouring states More... The commercialisation and dehumanisation of the cityThe Yamuna River is the site for spanking new stadia, sports villages, malls and multiplexes. Around 22 lakh people reside in the extended floodplains of east Delhi. Can this population withstand the new colonisation that is threatening to invade the floodplains? An interview with Dunu Roy of the Delhi-based Hazards Centre More... Murdered for Love'Honour' killings of young people who marry outside their caste are making front-page news every day. Even as the administration and local politicians look the other way, some courageous women have raised their voices and filed cases against the perpetrators of these barbaric acts More... Manipur resists land alienation250 farming families are protesting the acquisition of their fertile lands for modernisation of the Imphal airport.With cultivable land already at a premium in Manipur, the transition of agricultural land to infrastructure development all over the state will exacerbate the food crisis, add to poverty levels and cause loss of livelihoods More... Shyam Saran: ‘Can lifestyle emissions be pitted against survival emissions?’Shyam Saran, the Indian government’s key negotiator on climate change, explains India’s polluter-pays stand on climate change in international negotiations More... Migrate – or starveTikamgarh, in Madhya Pradesh, has been experiencing its third successive year of drought. Migration and contract labour is the only option. These are stories of families torn apart by forced migration, deserted villages, hunger, lonely children and helpless old folk More... |
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