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Breathing new life into old skills The 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... Making a meal of Bt cottonIn the Malwa belt of rural Punjab, mile after mile of Bt cotton fields are under attack by the mealy bug pest. Bathinda, Muktsar, Faridkot and Ferozepur, Punjab's four major cotton-growing districts, have been badly affected. The so-called 'magic bullet', Bt cotton has turned into a bitter pill for farmers who were promised profits but who are now faced with huge losses More... The role of cities in climate changeThe danger of treating climate change only as a man-made phenomenon that impacts nature's systems is that it posits the problem in some distant remoteness and absolves all of us of immediate responsibility. The facts tell us that three-quarters of the carbon dioxide in the world, which is the biggest greenhouse gas, is emitted by cities More... Varanasi's disabled: Desperate measuresCaught between local leaders, the state administration and the media, five disabled men in Varanasi died recently in a protest that went horribly wrong. Our correspondent travelled to Varanasi to find out what motivated their desperate act More... Failure of Kerala's famed public healthcare systemTwo reasons are attributed to the return of many epidemics to Kerala, a state that had achieved developed-country status in all the major human development indices: erosion of the grassroots-level public healthcare system that once thrived on government support, and dysfunctional municipal systems that do not deal effectively with waste-disposal More... The relevance of Naya DaurB R Chopra's Naya Daur, released in 1957, was a compelling film about the onslaught on people's livelihoods. Now, as SEZs edge out farmers and organised retail edges out small vendors and traders, the film, re-released in colour, has a special message about the importance of inclusive growth More... Ability UnlimitedTheir wheelchairs spinning faster than a kathak dancer, the artistes of the unique Ability Unlimited dance troupe hold audiences spellbound all over the world. Through dance, members of this 150-strong troupe of mentally/physically challenged people find a voice in a not very inclusive society More... Stalemate at SingurA year after 1,000 acres of land were acquired by the West Bengal government, Singur is quiet but simmering. "We are land people, we live on land and with land," say locals in this update. Only 300 of the 1200 landowners have accepted compensation More... |
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