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Songs of connectivity The deep roots of Islamic culture in India were explored in a week-long celebration of multiculturalism in Delhi recently More... Revitalising agriculture in KanjikuzhyA decade ago, Kanjikuzhy in Kerala began to worry about the decline of farming. Then the community took the initiative to set up farmer groups and a distribution and retail network. Farmers and coir product manufacturers now get a fair price for their products and also bypass the middlemen More... Nutritionist protests ban on lakhodi dalShantilal Kothari is fasting to have the ban on the cultivation and sale of lakhodi dal lifted. He maintains that lakhodi is an ideal crop for poor rural communities as it promises high yields, very low input costs and excellent nutritive value More... Climate change: Satabhaya village in Orissa goes underIn this follow-up to Infochange’s exclusive series on the impact of climate change on villages along the Orissa coast, Richard Mahapatra reports on the migration of families across Kendrapara district as the sea reaches their doorsteps More... Who killed Earth Day?Hank Stueyer of The Washington Post writes that Earth Day is dead, following a long but admirable struggle with celebrity piety and corporate baloney and, more specifically, too many ‘green’ issues in too many magazines. A roundup of what other newspapers and websites had to say on April 22 More... Suru Anna and the people’s protestThe massive April 1 rally in Kujang, Orissa, was a critical milestone in the three-year anti-POSCO agitation More... Caste wallsDalit Bhimnagar was separated from Maratha Dare by a 60-foot road when the villages were set up to rehabilitate Koyna dam oustees. Now, a new barrier in the form of a 155-m wall has caused simmering caste resentments to erupt in this western Maharashtra region. Our correspondent travelled to the divided villages to investigate how strong the caste divide really is in 21st century India More... Nation's food bowl in crisisWhen the state that was the country’s biggest agricultural success story in the 1970s tops the list of indebted farmers, it is obvious that there is something very rotten in the state of agriculture in the country. A three-part series that looks at the agriculture crisis in India’s food bowl, Punjab More... The killing fieldsRani Kaur’s husband committed suicide in 2003. Before that her eldest brother-in-law, Aloo Singh, took his own life in 1993, followed by another brother-in-law, Gurutej Singh, in 1996. In 2004, Gurutej’s son, Kala Singh, ended his life. There have been 81 farmer suicides in Balran village alone in Punjab’s Sangrur district, but the government still has no policy to deal with the worsening situation More... In the name of the GuruThe Nanak Kheti movement to reclaim the natural method of farming practised in the Punjab of yore, hopes to restore the degraded soil, lower input costs, and return farming to being a sustainable activity for the farmer More... The pain of RoshanaraCancer patient Roshanara’s morphine tablets keep her relatively pain-free. Morphine is part of palliative care, which allows terminally ill patients to live a life of dignity, free of pain. Why, then, is it so scarce in India? More... Losing the sand beneath their feetThe black sand of Kollam district in coastal Kerala is classified as ‘strategic’ because it contains minerals for atomic energy and defence applications. Therefore, indiscriminate mining of the sand can continue, regardless of damage to the ecosystem and the livelihoods of people More... Village of hopeOver 4,000 people live in the Delhi leprosy complex. Though leprosy has been eliminated -- not eradicated -- in India, the stigma and discrimination that leprosy patients and their children face is far from eliminated, and it is only in colonies like this one that they can find companionship and a home More... Trafficking women for domestic workMany ‘employment agencies’ that are springing up in cities to place migrant women for domestic work are little more than traffickers. The condition in which these women work violates several laws including the Bonded Labour Act and in many cases the Child Labour and Juvenile Justice Act. Activists are calling for a specific law to regulate the domestic work sector More... |
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