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Odisha – Trained tribal youth educate community about coronavirus

Unmasking COVID-19 Myths To prevent pandemic alienation of tribes, select local tribal youth were equipped with accurate information, so that they could demystify coronavirus myths among their community Apr 19, 2021 Rayagada and Koraput, Odisha The COVID-19 pandemic has affected… Continue Reading →

Mulshi: India’s first anti-dam satyagraha and Gandhiji’s insistence on non-violence

By Nandini K Oza*  The Mulshi satyagraha (struggle) against a dam being built by the Tata company on the river Mula in Maharashtra is one of the first anti-dam struggles of India, fought nearly a hundred years ago. However, not… Continue Reading →

Maharashtra Mini-Lockdown As A Standalone Measure Is Not Sufficient !

19/4/2021 By- Jan Aarogya Abhiyan Need for broad based public health measures and people’s involvement WHY THE HUGE SECOND COVID19 WAVE? The partial lockdown declared in Maharashtra from 14th April is a very unfortunate development. Some people have argued that… Continue Reading →

Creative protest and play: What can they teach us?

By using play we can find space to protest, and do it legitimately. And in doing so, potentially change something in the world around us. by HAVOVI WADIA    Play (noun): The space in or through which a mechanism can or does… Continue Reading →

How are our cities making us lonely

Loneliness isn’t really a personal mental health issue. Instead, it’s embedded in how cities and systems are built and organised. by DEEPIKA KHATRI Describing her lockdown experience in a basti (settlement) in Mumbai, 15-year-old Saniya’s rap song captures the isolation that has given… Continue Reading →

Politics in Coastal Kerala: Lives Lost in a Sea of Manifestos

APRIL 19, 2021 By Jisha Elizabeth Who will rule Kerala? The coastal voters have a decisive role in answering this question. And among these voters, there are more women than men. During election campaigns, the most roadshows, rallies and so… Continue Reading →

Demands to take urgent measures for food and social security in view of lockdown in Chhattisgarh

In the current scenario of the second wave of corona epidemic, government in Chhattisgarh state has imposed a lockdown in most of the districts of the state. The poor suffered the most in the lockdown imposed last year. Last year,… Continue Reading →

‘Difficult to Predict how Many Waves of Covid-19 India will Have’—Vaccine Specialist Sanjay Rai

Multiplicity of vaccine brands will certainly lead to commercialisation of vaccines, the top scientist warns. byAjaz AshrafApril 17, 2021 Few had expected the second wave of the Coronavirus disease, or Covid-19, to sweep across India. As cities are placed under curfew… Continue Reading →

Chamoli in the Grip of Fear, Trauma and Sleeplessness

Two Months After Floods 16/04/2021 Seema Sharma Raini village, Chamoli, Uttarakhand: It has been over two months since the flash floods in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, on February 7. The flood was triggered by a massive rockslide just below Ronti peak,… Continue Reading →

How marginalised communities gave folk expression to ‘lost’ inheritance in eastern UP

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Fourteen years ago, when noted Hindi author and historian Subhash Chandra Kushwaha took the initiative to create a space for folk artistes against the culture of indecency and vulgarity in the name of folk culture, particularly… Continue Reading →

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