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October 24, 2012 , The Hindu NIRANJAN MAHAWAR: ‘Market forces are also changing artefacts.’ Photo: Rupesh Yadav Niranjan Mahawar, 75, is a self-taught ethnologist of Chhattisgarh. He spent almost five decades in southern Chhattisgarh to study the life and art… Continue Reading →
9th august 2012, Today on UN Indigenous Day…Sriram Sen from Tahsil Silvani in District Raisen in Madhya Pradesh is telling us that there is an adivasi village called Sendhakhar where govt is making a dam but have not done any… Continue Reading →
By Megha Mandavia, ET Bureau | 23 Dec, 2013, MUMBAI: For India Inc, 39-year-old environment lawyer Ritwick Dutta is a perennial nuisance, someone who has been obstructing, slowing and litigating against the industrialisation of the country. But for tree huggers, he’s… Continue Reading →
Hrusikesh Mohanty | Berhampur December 19, 2013, BS Tribals at Koraput in Odisha have threatened to intensify their stir, if Hindalco went ahead with its plan of resuming bauxite mining at Mali Parbat. The mine used to feed the company’s… Continue Reading →
Join FAKING HAPPINESS CAMPAIGN in wishing Dr Prannoy Roy of NDTV on his birthday, on 15th Oct 2013 , and hope he withdraws VEDANTA form the our girls our child campaign , in the name of TRUTH, as he claims… Continue Reading →
‘ Author(s): Kumar Sambhav S… [1] Issue Date: 2013-8-30 Autonomous councils in the Northeast are the reason why people there did not lose access to land and forests, says Virginius Xaxa, head of recently constituted high level panel to map status… Continue Reading →
Author: Sayantan Bera Posted on: 28 Aug, 2013 Existing mines can comfortably meet India’s demand for the next thirty years, at levels three times our current consumption Forest dwellers from Niyamgiri rejected proposed mining at India’s first ever environment referendum. Will… Continue Reading →
ALOK DESHPANDE, The Hindu In a major victory, tribal people in Maharashtra’s Thane district have managed to get information on forest land titles through the Right to Information Act. They were demanding this information for months, with over a… Continue Reading →
Defanging a legislation NITIN SETHI, August 25, 2013 CLAIMANTS TO FORESTLAND: Dongria Kondhs in the backdrop of the Niyamgiri hills where Orissa Mining Corporation and Vedanta propose their venture. Photo: K.R. Deepak GRAM SABHA: A tribal opposing bauxite mining in Jarapa… Continue Reading →
Leena Uppal Aug 23, 2013 Odisha is a specific instance where the state continues to piggyback on female sterilisation to meet its development agenda, writes Leena Uppal. Khurda: World Population Day was marked by much fanfare in Odisha this year,… Continue Reading →