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Play fair at the Olympics
As athletes perform swifter, higher and stronger at the Athens Olympics, millions of sweatshop workers have been working faster, longer and cheaper to make the fashionable sportswear. International coalitions are working to draw attention to the exploitation of these workers. In India, an alternative Olympic torch was carried from Tirupur to Ludhiana and other major Indian garment-producing centres More... The after-death industryFor many in Andhra Pradesh's agrarian crisis, even death is not the end of the trouble. Instead, it is the beginning of a new burden for the families of the survivors More... Gandhi's ideals live on in GandhigramStarting out as one woman's dream, Gandhigram has grown into one of the largest umbrella institutions of its kind in India. The reason for its success is that instead of offering a readymade agenda for development it has responded to the needs of the community More... Street dustbins are the problem, not the solution!Long before a Supreme Court deadline for the implementation of the Municipal Solid Waste Rules, 2000, came into effect in January 2004, Suryapet in Andhra Pradesh had showed the way to the rest of the country by cleaning up its waste in a safe, environment-friendly manner More... Village uses 'Laporiya Squares' to outwit droughtIn Laporiya village in Rajasthan, a unique water conservation scheme involving Laporiya Squares has ensured bumper harvests and increased incomes More... Detained for serving meals to 'militants'Hundreds of women are picked up by the police and imprisoned under the draconian Prevention Of Terrorism Act, often under frivolous charges More... How the better half dies — IIThe world 'suicide widows' face is a daunting one -- to run the farm, face the creditors, bring up the children and earn a living is not easy. Nor is having to pay off debts they did not themselves incur. Yet, some of them try More... How the better half dies — IAs farming floundered, many families from Anantpur came to the towns in search of work As the men sought work as auto drivers or daily wage labour, often unsuccessfully, the stress on their wives was enormous. The collapse of farming is closely linked to the suicides of hundreds of women in the district More... Job drought preceded farm crisisLong before the drought bit deep, Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district was already in trouble. The close links between workers, farming and industry were broken by the new policies of the 1990s More... Mithila's women paint their way out of povertyThe Bharati Vikas Manch, in Bihar's Barheta village, has been instrumental in teaching poor village women the famous Mithila genre of painting. The skill has helped transform lives and ward off poverty in many backward villages in the state More... Seeds of suicide - I IPart two of an article on the new moneylenders in Andhra Pradesh -- the seeds, fertiliser and pesticide dealers, who are at the centre of a growing controversy. This concludes P Sainath's series on farmer suicides in the state More... Seeds of suicide - IThe seed, pesticide and fertiliser dealers are the new moneylenders of the Andhra Pradesh countryside. The power this group wields is a vital factor in the ongoing crisis of the suicides of farmers. The first of a two-part article by P SainathMore... Dreaming of water, drowning in debtIn Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district, which has seen four successive crop failures, superstition, the occult, God, government and technology have all been pressed into service in a desperate search for water, writes P SainathMore... Chandrababu: Image and realityOn most indicators, Chandrababu Naidu ran the worst performing state in the south of India for nearly 10 years. Yet the more damage he did, the more his media standing grew, says P SainathMore... |
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