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Credit, violence and women Women and moneylenders have always had a volatile relationship. In suicide-ridden Vidarbha, this aspect of the agrarian crisis has remained largely hidden, but in several documented cases, women have been attacked and their land and property snatched More... Presumed guilty: India's denotified tribesIn September, a mob in Bihar lynched 10 members of a denotified tribe, taking them for thieves. A probe later revealed that they were not thieves. Sixty million people in India belonging to denotified and nomadic tribes continue to suffer such discrimination More... Coastal convulsionsThe proposed Coastal Zone Management notification, which is expected to replace the existing Coastal Regulation Zone notification (1991), will hit the coastline like a second tsunami, say activists. With the shifting of ‘zones’, entire fishing communities will be moved out of coastal areas, making way for unbridled construction in the name of ‘development’ More... March to victoryThere was jubilation among the Janadesh marchers as the government announced the setting up of a land reforms committee and fast-track courts at the state level. True, the history of land reform in India is littered with broken promises and failed legislation, but Janadesh has brought land reforms for the poorest back onto the national agenda More... Janadesh: Marathon marchThis is a march on a breathtaking scale -- 25,000 people marching 320 km from Gwalior to Delhi, on one meal a day, sleeping in the open. These are people deprived of their land by powerful landlords, displaced by industrial projects with little or no compensation, denied access to traditional sources of livelihood. Jonathan Weedon is marching with them More... RTI is development you can seeThe villagers of Boru in Gujarat, under the stewardship of Gulambhai, decided they would no longer tolerate the lack of healthcare facilities in their village. Using the right to information, they fired off a series of questions to the PIO. And things began to change More... Storm over sexuality education in UPRecent data from NFHS-III reveals that an overwhelming majority of Indians feel their children should be taught about sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS in school. Nevertheless, Uttar Pradesh, with the country’s highest infant mortality rate and high maternal mortality and fertility rates, has chosen to ban its very successful Adolescent Education Programme in schools across the state More... Hi-tech building plans threaten to displace Valanthakkadu's dalitsThe tiny island of Valanthakkadu, situated in the middle of Vembanadu lake in Kerala, is being eyed by builders and land developers who want to turn it into a ‘high-tech city’. The local dalit population, which lives entirely off the rich ecosystem, is up in arms More... Breathing new life into old skillsThe sculptors of Shivarapatna in Karnataka are keepers of 1,000-year-old artistic secrets, but scores are opting for other occupations. For the last three years, however, they have been working with a French designer to create modern products in an effort to make their traditional occupations more sustainable More... Karnataka police formulate a workplace policy on HIV/AIDSThe Karnataka State Police has become the first state police department in India to formally unveil a comprehensive and detailed Workplace Policy on HIV/AIDS. But will it work on the ground? More... News from the countrysideA unique experiment to train young villagers in the art of newsgathering and reporting for the Rural Chronicle is being undertaken in Maharashtra. The idea is to make rural youth the eyes and ears of their villages More... The struggle is towards more inclusive economic development: Arjun SenguptaThe National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector recently declared that 836 million Indians remain marginalised. The Commission's Chairman Arjun Sengupta says in this interview that the maximisation of profits should not be the sole aim of economic growth. Planning must occupy itself entirely with the improvement of vulnerable sections of society through social engineering More... Rajasthan padyatra highlights pressing rural problemsA recently-concluded 10-day padyatra of 300 villages in four districts around Jaipur highlighted the problems of land acquisition More... Red Light DispatchRed Light Dispatch, India's first newsmagazine for sex-workers, is brought out exclusively by sex-workers from an office located within a brothel in Mumbai's Kamathipura district. This unique magazine discusses the problems and dreams of sex-workers More... Pulling the right stringsFrom poor village boy, to ragpicker, to famous muppeteer, Mohammad Shamsul admits his life matches up to his dreams! More... |
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