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February 23, 2012
Peace-building
Peace refractions
The everydayness of conflict, and of peace-building
Manufacturing conflict
A people-centred peace
The folly of using violence to quell violence
Constitutionalism and the possibilities of peace
‘Listen to your mother before you kill your brother’
The violence within
The Indian family: A peace not worth protecting?
Secular rethink
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The limits of freedom
Speaking freely
A million tyrannies now
Sedition and the death of free speech
Freedom in security
Reasonable restrictions and unreasonable speech
The secret life of film censorship
When is ‘news’ better off not reported?
Cultural memory and the politics of intolerance in Maharashtra
Dissent vs incitement?
Freedom gagged
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Enclosure of the commons
All that we share
Dependence of the poor on commons
Common wealth, priceless wealth
Consequences of the loss of commons
How grazing lands became ‘waste’ lands
The power to take – and displace
The invisible fish hunters of the Godavari
From owners to ‘occupiers’
Challenging the tourism juggernaut
The farmer, the lotus pickers and the washermen
Destroyed by ‘development’
Only enlightened local communities can protect the global commons
Privatising Bangalore’s lakes
The fuzzy logic of urban commons
The Kaikondrahalli lake initiative
Guardians of the forest
Commons manifesto
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Ethics of medical technologies
Medical technologies: Transformation or tyranny?
Crafting perfect children
Dilemmas of a mother-to-be
Negotiating the maze of pre-birth technologies
Regulate technology, not lives
Women as wombs
Challenges of a paediatric intensivist
X-rays: Too much of a good thing?
The right to hear, or the right to be deaf?
The Wild West of stem cell procedures
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Agricultural revival
Towards a new agriculture
An evolutionary view of Indian agriculture
Tamil Nadu’s organic revolution
Return to the good earth in Sangli
The new natural economics of agriculture
Climate change and food security
Local solutions to climate change
Tackling climate change in Gorakhpur
Agriculture at nature’s mercy
Resilience of man and nature
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Coastal communities
Introduction: Rights of coastal communities
Challenges of marine management
Ocean pollution
Coastal refugees
The hungry tide
The sinking of the Nicobars
Porous borders, unsafe waters
Saltpan city
Tradition versus tourism
Fish wars in the Global South
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Civil society
We, the people
A fine balance
Putting civil society in its place
Civil society as a moral moment
Re-imagining civil society
‘What civil society said 25 years ago has become law today’
A disturbing disconnect
The spirit of seva
‘Civil society is only geared to the needs of the elite’
A quiet coup?
The CSR charade
Partners in sustainability
‘Civil society is a cacophony, not an orchestra’
Society and state
From vote to voice
Media and civil society
Politics for people
The politics of social transformation in India
How to engage with the political class
Pawns in conflict zones
Civil society and the production of (in)security
How civil society has changed the world
Good governance in our own backyards
The dog that did not bark
Under pressure
Planned obsolescence
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Multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue
Open spaces
Manufactured multiculturalism
Once upon a citizen…
The cultural challenges of globalisation
Expanding the middle ground
Ram-Rahim Nagar: Oasis of peace
The Shivajinagar problem
‘Art has always been surrounded by strife’
Poetics, politics, praxis
Songs of a shared past
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Occupational safety and health
Work can kill
Voices from the ground
Status of occupational safety and health in India
Salt pains
The judicial response to workplace safety
Heat, dust and chemical exposure
The destruction of construction
Fashionable and famous -- at the garment worker's cost!
The dust that kills
Poisoned by pesticides
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Reporting conflict
Sensitivity and professionalism: The twin mantras for conflict reporting
Amplifying chaos, sowing discord
The ethics of conflict coverage
Manipur: The tussle and the compromise
Media perceptions vs law enforcement in Kashmir
'The stress is on conflict, not its resolution'
Reporting communal conflict
The art of not writing
Who is Ima Gyaneswari?
Sensation and sympathy
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Against exclusion
Introduction: One person, one value
Towards inclusion and equity
Garbage as a metaphor
1,001 battles: Converting dalit numbers into dalit strength
Caste is the cruellest exclusion
Dalit exclusion: The empirical evidence
Caste is entrenched in the Indian diaspora
Giving adivasis a voice
Queer azadi
Tamil Nadu pioneers transgender inclusion
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Migration & Displacement
Introduction: On the move
The Mavlas of Mulshi: Displacement’s earliest victims
Paying the price for someone else’s displacement
In Gujarat's ghettos
Return from exile
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Battles Over Land
Land as livelihood vs land as commodity
Tossed aside in the fast lane to growth
Chengara: Dalit homeland?
Nandigram revisited: The scars of battle
Yesterday’s ‘encroachers’ are today’s rights-holders
The shrink-wrapping of Goa
The pressure on slumlands
Beware of the bulls
When we had land
The idiocy of urban thinking
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HIV/AIDS: Big Questions
Hard questions about HIV/AIDS
20 million or 2 million?
Is HIV/AIDS skewing the priorities of the public health system?
What has changed for people living with HIV?
Zarina: 'We need more than information'
Why do less than half of those who require ART get treatment?
Transmission: Is it just about sex and drugs?
Criminalising high-risk groups such as MSM
Sex workers continue to be treated as vectors of disease
Moving beyond detoxification
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Women At Work
Holding up more than half the sky
Understanding the unorganised sector
Uncovering women's work
A lawless sector
It's been a hard day's night
'We pay for the work with our dignity'
Carriers of the dregs of humanity
Disquiet in Gudalur valley
The domestic workers of silicon city
On a slim scaffolding
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Child Rights In India
Children as citizens
Status of children in India
Who is a child?
'Nitharis will happen until child rights becomes the focus of national policy'
Stumbling from the start
Childcare as a social responsibility
What does the budget have to do with children?
The battle for survival
Street dreams
'Foot soldiers for our mothers
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Cost of Liberalisation
Trade as if people matter
Can multilateral trade work for the poor?
A brief history of the WTO
Protection for the rich; free play of market forces for the poor
Subsidising suicides
Building a global partnership for development
The MDGs and the free trade mantra
The decline and fall of the Kerala coconut
'Instead of Special Economic Zones, why not Special Agricultural Zones?'
SEZs: Economic or exploitation zones?
Huligamma and Big Mac
A looming public health crisis?
The struggle for affordable medicines
More media, less democracy
Marginalising the marginalised
The alternative: Community autonomy over food and seeds
Trade liberalisation: The new threat to Kerala's fishermen
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Food Security
Introduction: Increasing food insecurity in South Asia
All you who sleep hungry tonight
Why Karmeena Musahar died
The poverty line is a starvation line
Consumed by calories
'All we want is to live'
How famine was created
Along the famished road
Pitfalls of the second green revolution
Signing the wrong contract
No wheat to eat
Food at stake
The right to food
'Legal action has its limits'
Guarantee against hunger?
Insecure in the gathering dusk
Disintegrated services
Women eat least, and last
The empty belly of Bhandup
Nine myths about hunger
Neglecting hunger, bypassing health
Increasing hunger amongst relative plenty
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Climate Change
Introduction: Energy versus emissions: The big challenge of the new millennium
Hotting up: The science and politics of climate change
Confused about climate
Low on fuel: Crisis ahead
Mobility: At what cost?
Climate's new trustees
Hydropower is hot property again
A trading system based on hot air
161 of 232 CDM projects in the Asia-Pacific are in India
Flaws in the pro-nuclear argument
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Sexual Rights In India
Introduction: Recognising, claiming and celebrating sexual rights
Let's talk about sex
'Moral' victories
Fundamentalisms and sexuality
The 21st century politics of college clothing
'Women make demands, but only ladies get protection'
The absurdity of laws
Is there such a thing as the metrosexual male?
Busting the myth of the Great Indian Sexual Revolution
Written on the body
Sex books and the mediation of masculinities
Sexual rights as human rights
Limiting sexuality
Questioning 'queer'
Regulation of disabled women's sexuality
Sexual harassment: Battling unwelcome sexual attention
No sex please
Emancipation through legislation?
Do helplines help?
The Champa story
Does pleasure count?
In-between places
Reel space: Engendering difference
Prayer, punishment or therapy? Being a homosexual in India
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The Politics Of Water
The political economy of water
India's water future: Dry days ahead
2015: 334 million Indians will still lack access to safe water supply
30 litres for some, 1,600 for others: Inequities in Delhi's water supply
Beg, buy or steal: Scrounging for water in Delhi
The price the poor pay in Mumbai, Pune
The political economy of public sector water utilities reform
Stealing farmers' water to quench Chennai's big thirst
Dry village, lush water park: Public resources for private profit
Who pays for our giant follies?
Rivers for sale: The privatisation of common property resources
Giants in the water market
Boond-boond mein paisa: Bottled water is big business
Robbing Paul to pay Peter: Industrial water vs drinking water
Privatisation: Getting to the bottom of a muddled debate
The politicisation of water
Rural distress, urban greed: Interview with Anupam Mishra
Possible solutions: The middle path?
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Access To Healthcare
A matter of life and death
Public health infrastructure: What we need and what we have
Healthcare denied: Voices of the people
Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi
Calcutta Medical College and Hospital
Waiting for a lifeline
Nagaland has 500 doctors for 2 million people
Ill and impoverished: The medical poverty trap
Anatomy of a health disaster
The out-of-pocket burden of healthcare
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Industrial Pollution
Editorial:Wrong questions. Wrong answers
20 years after: Anger and denial on the streets of Bhopal
Safe livelihoods
Victims twice over
Can a Bhopal happen again?
The law 20 years after: Significant absences
The health effects of industrial pollution: A primer
Bearing the body burden: Environmental toxins and women's health
REACH: Chemicals under the microscope
6,000 kilometres on the toxic trail
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