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ChangemakerDayabai, lady of fire
Mercy Mathew, also known as Dayabai, has been living in the Gond tribal hamlets of Madhya Pradesh for 20 years, sharing the lives of the tribals, teaching them organic farming and helping them fight for their rights More... Ratan Thiyam: Knocking on the doors of the human conscienceTheatre is more than dialogue, music, performance and production values, according to veteran playwright and director Ratan Thiyam. It is a medium to question society, war and violence More... Trade must work for development: Walden BelloIn Mumbai to attend the recently concluded World Social Forum 2004, Walden Bello, activist, academic and director of Focus on the Global South, explains that forums such as these are not meant to generate action; they serve to get thinkers and analysts together to find a common thread of expression More... 'Our life is about shaking people up': Sunita NarainThe director of the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, which has shaken Indian consumers with its findings that 12 soft drink brands marketed by Coke and Pepsi have pesticide content 30 times higher than acceptable limits, lashes out at the double standards of global companies in the developing world and insists that confrontation is the only way to bring about change in this country More... Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi: Caste, not class, is at the root of bonded labourRealising that the problems of caste have to be tackled at the roots, Lenin Raghuvanshi has adopted four villages and one slum in which he is reactivating defunct primary schools, eradicating bonded labour, ensuring that girls get an education and that dalits have a minimum 50 per cent representation on village committees More... Beena Sheth Lashkari: Making invisible children visibleBeena Sheth Lashkari is designing continuous, rapid innovations to provide slum children their first exposure to education and to help them stay in school. From doorstep schools to schools-on-wheels to evening schools, Beena finds creative ways to make that first approach successful More... Who will clean up the Bhopal mess?Rashida Bee, a survivor of the Bhopal gas tragedy, is at the Earth Summit, carrying a broom. Bee, who has been campaigning ceaselessly for justice for the Bhopal victims, hopes to hand over the broom to the head of multinational Dow Chemicals, in a symbolic suggestion that they clean up the mess they've left behind More... C K Janu: 'Experience is my guide'C K Janu is illiterate and has no political ideology except her own, born of poverty, bondage and the experience of working as a domestic and daily-wage labourer since the age of seven. And yet she is spearheading the struggle of Kerala's 3.5 lakh landless adivasis (tribals) More... Dr Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta: Hara-kiri by structural adjustmentPublic health is and must remain, the responsibility of the State, not of the private sector, NGOs or international organisations, says Dr Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, leading authority on public health in South Asia. But in the era of structural adjustment, with India and Pakistan spending just 1.5 and 1 per cent of their GDP respectively on health, diseases associated with poverty and malnutrition are actually on the rise. Whatever happened to structural adjustment with a human face? More... |
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