Sea change in the forest
Tribals in Orissa's Eastern Ghats range are giving up shifting cultivation and fiercely protecting their forests
Grassroots
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Powering people
Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and exploitation
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The importance of being earnest
A voluntary organisation shows what sincerity can achieve
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Windowdressing forestry
Applause and international funding of a forestry project greenwashes the cruel realities of the people living there
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The last of the Pyaakas
A lonely wind moans eerily through empty houses and deserted streets, rattling a broken window here, a halfhinged door there: 350 people once lived here. Today, 35 km from Mandvi, Pyaaka is a ghost
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Water in the sand
Experiments in rainwater harvesting are recharging parched aquifers in Kutch
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Organ thieves, beware
The All-India Association for Voluntary Donations of Human Organs After Death has launched a campaign against illegal organ transplants, directed at nurses, clerks, ward boys and other
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Fertilising frustration
A so called farmer's cooperative fertiliser company is ruining agricultural land in Uttar Pradesh
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Rebel saints
Four Franciscan Mary Missionery (FMM) nuns who have rebelled against the Church are in the forefront of a struggle for the restoration of tribal ancestral lands illegally occupied, mostly by
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Barefoot doctors
Backward Bihar villagers receive healthcare from barefoot 'first aid physicians'