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Pluralism and the bauls

By Kalyani Chaudhuri

Mimlu Sen writes about Bengal’s famous baul singers and their pluralist visions of the world with depth and humour, and the immediacy of an insider. The bauls’ simple way of life is under threat from urbanisation and consumerism More...

Give rural poor control over ecosystems to fight poverty: WRI report

With proper management and the incentives that come with control and accountability, ecosystems could generate enough income to lift the rural poor out of abject poverty, says a new report by the World Resources Institute More...

The voices of the millworkers of Mumbai

By Sanjay Iyer

'One Hundred Years One Hundred Voices' is a strong and sprawling history of Mumbai's textile mill district and its 1.3 million people, now displaced by the consumer civilisation More...

Vishvakarma's children struggle to break into the new economy

By Enakshi Ganguly-Thukral

A review of two books that examine the lives, craft and challenges of India's craftspeople today More...

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