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Changemaker'I suffered as a dalit, but did not view myself as a suffering dalit'
K R Narayanan, India's first and only dalit President, died recently. In this, one of his final interviews, India's tenth President discusses his journey from a village hut to the presidential palace More... Fighting the stigma of 'chor'One of colonialism's harshest legacies was the branding of 10 crore nomadic and forest tribals as thieves and criminals. Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer Lakshman Maruti Gaikwad, whose books chronicle the pain and anguish suffered by his community, the Pardhis, continues the struggle against this injustice More... E F Schumacher: The scale of wisdomE F Schumacher's Buddhist approach to economics distinguishes between misery, sufficiency and surfeit. Economic growth is good only to the point of sufficiency. Limitless growth and limitless consumption are disastrous More... Where have all the dreamers gone?Bob Dylan, radical anti-establishment figure of the '60s, is no longer crooning for a better world. Today he symbolises weary compromise rather than idealistic youth More... Our work on budget analysis has shifted the balance of power in favour of the poor: MD MistryIt is money, and the power to influence its deployment, that is key to securing livelihoods and the rights of the marginalised, says M D Mistry, the grassroots activist who has traversed the distance from Gujarat's tribal heartland to parliament house in Delhi More... Komalda's homage to ordinarinessKomal Kothari, who died recently, was an ardent seeker of several systems of undocumented knowledge, and the richest repository of its interconnections. In him we have lost a vital link with living traditions on the ground, writes Rustom Bharucha More... 'We have to start the process of thinking about alternatives'Aruna Roy, founder-member of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatana and Ramon Magsaysay awardwinner for 2000, on why she will be campaigning against right-wing politics and for people's rights, and the growing feeling amongst development workers that they must engage eventually in electoral politics More... Social messages on a stringAlthough most people consider puppetry just another form of entertainment, Pune-based Hemant and Ranjana Kanitkar use the art for social awakening and reformation More... 'Why should gender or sexuality define our identity?'In a society where eunuchs can either be sex workers or beggars, Narthaki Natraj and Sakthi Bhaskar are well-known and respected Bharatanatyam artistes. This is their account of their battle against terrible cruelty and discrimination and their refusal to give u More... |
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