Monthly Archives: February 2011
Transferring 26% Of Mining Profits To Local Populations
The Indian government is thinking about giving local people a stake in the resources mined from their area by offering them 26% equity or payout of profits. But will government implement profit-sharing any more effectively than it implements the rehabilitation … Continue reading
‘We Are Seeing The Emergence Of A New Poor’
In 2000, world leaders from United Nations member states envisioned a new world for the third millennium and charted what came to be known as the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). In a candid interview, Minar Pimple, Deputy Director Asia, UN … Continue reading
The Poverty Of The Rich
GOING BY the peaks reached by the Sensex every time there is a natural calamity, the Indian stock market is in for exciting times, it seems. Echoing the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a recent report … Continue reading
Power Of New Nationalism
The spark that was lit in Tunisia has now spread the brushfire to four countries after consuming Egypt’s long-time president Hosni Mubarak. Coming days will show if the Tunisian uprising will become the Arab equivalent of the 1980 Gdansk strike in Poland that … Continue reading
The Salt Demon’s Legacy
Once in a way, nature and chance converse briefly to produce a wonder. About 60,000 years ago, the deccan plateau had a visitor from outer space. A decently sized rock, seduced by the earth’s gravity and not completely eaten away … Continue reading
Confining childhood in India
Do child rights activists need to step out of the boxes of ‘development’, ‘survival’, ‘protection’ and ‘participation’ into which they have confined India’s children? Do we need to interrogate child rights programming and the somewhat limiting notions of childhood around … Continue reading
Growth And Other Concerns
AMARTYA SEN A comparitive development saga of India to the rest of the world by Prof Amartya Sen..
Sardar Sarovar Project, Canals of India Sagar & Omkareshwar and Jobat Dam Project
This publication is a report on Sardar Sarovar Project, Canals of India Sagar & Omkareshwar and Jobat Dam Project. Read full Report Source: India Peoples tribunal on Crime and Honor
Tales of Greed, Destruction And State’s Myopia
There have been gross violations of the rights of the poor, particularly tribal rights, which have reached unprecedented levels since the implementation of new economic policies of the 90s. The 5th Schedule Rights of the tribals, in particular the Panchayat … Continue reading
Domestic Violence Outlawed
Although the Domestic Violence Act mandates certain mechanisms to be put in place in order to protect the rights of women facing violence, in most states, neither have the functionaries under the Act been appointed nor have the required services … Continue reading